AI Isn’t Replacing Writers, It’s Replacing Readers

And that’s much worse

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Every week, someone posts a dramatic headline about AI taking creative jobs. (And most other jobs, for that matter.)

I’ve done it.

“Writers are doomed.” “Artists will vanish.” “Journalism is dead.”

But that’s not really what’s happening, is it? Not yet, at least.,

So far, AI isn’t replacing writers. And if it is, it’s not doing a great job at it, because it’s still easy to clearly tell when something was written or created entirely by AI, without human editing.

But there’s another shift happening that’s far ahead.

AI is replacing readers. The very people we write for.

And that’s a much bigger problem. Here’s why