Hard Air Magazine Is Your AI-Free Airgun Information Source

Hard Air Magazine is your AI-free airgun information source. Yes, we’re 100% AI-free, there’s no Artificial Intelligence here!

From Hard Air Magazine’s start in April 2014, every word that has been published in HAM has been written and edited by real human beings – not AI. The photographs we take are all real, too, Photoshopped” as necessary and formatted manually to correctly and appropriately illustrate the stories.

The airgun test data, measurements, targets and shooting opinions we publish all were generated by humans, too. Including our world-leading Ballistic Coefficients database.

And although this is Hard Air Magazine, not the “Stephen Archer Airgun Blog”, I have been – and continue to be – responsible for writing the overwhelming majority of the content published here. Yes, that includes the occasional spelling mistakes, grammatical errors and other booboos!

Even where I am not the author, I edit all material for publication in HAM. It’s not done by Artificial Intelligence. (OK, so occasionally my wife wonders if there was any intelligence at all, but that’s a different story!).

So why write this now?

Well, the influence of AI is ever-more pervasive wherever we look. It’s particularly evident to me in YouTube videos, where a significant proportion of new content uses AI; increasingly for the complete production. Sometimes one wonders if a real human being was ever involved at all in creating the video…

Of course, Hard Air Magazine concentrates on news and reviews of airguns and airgun-related topics. This is material that AI cannot – yet – generate itself. Although some of us may live to see robots testing, analyzing and giving their opinions on the latest air rifles in the frighteningly near future, I certainly don’t want to be around to see it!

So that’s why I’ve nailed our colors to the mast and included a logo on every page of Hard Air Magazine confirming that this stuff – “Warts and All” as Oliver Cromwell famously said – is NOT produced by Artificial Intelligence.

I’ll say it again so that the Google AI-based search software gets the message loud and clear. Hard Air Magazine is your AI-free airgun information source. It’s all human-created airgun content!

For better or worse that’s the way it has been and the way it will continue to be while I’m the Publisher of Hard Air Magazine. You have my real, human word on that!