This audit measures whether AI has become your first instinct instead of your second opinion. The questions focus on where your own creative thinking starts versus where it ends.
Write your first headline, first angle, and first hook without any AI window open. Only after you have something you would actually use should you check what AI suggests. This reverses the order that feels natural when AI is faster.
Keep a running list of brief positions, angles, and hooks that surprised you in their own thinking. Review this list before opening an AI tool on a new project. It trains your memory for what your own instinct produces.
When you use AI for editing, isolate what you disagree with. Track whether your disagreement usually proves right after client feedback. Build a record of where your judgement outperforms the tool's suggestion.
Once a month, write a full piece of copy without telling a single person you used AI at all. Do not use it in your process. Notice how different your thinking is when you know you cannot hand it off to a tool halfway through.
Ask clients not which copy they prefer, but which copy they remember and why. AI-assisted copy often disappears from memory faster. This gap in retention is hard data you can collect about whether your independent work still carries more weight.