Steal Like an AI: Taking Is Free Now. Claiming Isn't.

What happens when everyone can create? Steal Like an AI explores the new reality of creative work, where generating images, writing, ideas, code, and endless variations is no longer the hard part. The hard part is knowing what is worth keeping. Built around Asif Khan's Signature Stack: Source, Collide, Reject, Deform, Carry, Signature, this book is a practical guide to using AI without becoming another producer of predictable, interchangeable work. Through fourteen principles, real working methods, experiments, worksheets, failure diagnostics, and the Anti-Slop Protocol, you will learn how to give machines better inputs, challenge their defaults, kill weak ideas, make deliberate interventions, verify what matters, and take responsibility for what you finally publish. This is not another collection of prompts or a promise of effortless productivity. It is about the decisions that happen before the prompt, between generations, and after the machine gives you an answer. Because when everyone has the ability to generate, your advantage is no longer what you can make. It is what you can recognise, reject, change, and confidently sign. Take everything. Then make it yours.