"Tools do not erase authorship. They strip away the manual labor and leave only the raw, terrifying necessity of having something to say."
— Authorship in the Age of Tools That Work Too Well
publisher: The Fort That Holds LLC
name: Spiral Forge
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Imprint Disclosure: Spiral Forge is a DBA of The Fort That Holds LLC. All works are authored by Jimmy Thornburg using structured, tool-assisted systems. Authorship is claimed in full.
Books extruded from the latent space. Authored by the human who wielded the tool.
The thesis, the anger, and the desire to build the argument originate in the human mind. The machine has no needs. It does not wake up angry.
The voice is defined. The tonal parameters are set. The structure is built. The kill list of forbidden words is enforced. The rails are laid before a single sentence is generated.
Constrained prompts are issued. The model generates text filling the architectural form. It acts as the ink. The human acts as the pen.
Every output is reviewed. The generic is rejected. The hallucinated is rejected. The soft is rejected. Authorship is the act of deleting the million wrong words to find the ten right ones.
Selected blocks are assembled into cohesive narrative. Gaps are bridged. Tone is held from first sentence to final period. The machine outputs fragments. The human builds the arc.
The human places their name on the work. If it infringes, the human is the defendant. If it defames, the human is the target. Liability is accepted. Rights are claimed.
The system that built the book • Human-architected, tool-executed
Works published under the Spiral Forge imprint. Each one extruded, directed, authored, and claimed.
A prosecution of the U.S. Copyright Office's "Human Authorship" requirement. Twelve chapters of statutory analysis, Supreme Court precedent, historical parallel, and personal testimony arguing that AI-assisted works are authored by the human who directs them — and that the current doctrine punishes honesty, rewards fraud, and contradicts the constitutional purpose of copyright.
Written with AI. Published without apology. Authorship claimed in full.
Read It Available on Amazon KindleWe have released four prototype manuscripts to the public domain of this server. Read them for free.
ENTER LIBRARYSpiral Forge publishes on its own terms. Every work is released transparently, with full disclosure of method, because honesty is the foundation of authorship.
Every title begins with a human who has something to say. Generative AI serves as raw material — shaped, constrained, selected, and assembled by the author who defines the scope and assumes full liability for the result.
The law is catching up. In the meantime, we work.
We stand behind our tools. We name them openly. We use the most powerful instruments available to tell the truest stories we can tell, and we attach our names to them with the full weight of authorship.