01/08/2025

Don’t Count Out Human Writers in the Age of AI

The appetite for AI-derived drivel isn’t as strong as many would have you believe

In 2025, human writers will reassert their worth. In recent years, the race for more and more content has been driven by technological and market imperatives such as search engine optimization, which serves neither the creator nor the consumer. Human needs and desires have been sidelined in favor of the attention economy and the drive for clicks.

Hailed as a boon for freedom of expression, the early promise of the internet has failed us. Literature and journalism have been replaced by valueless "content," primarily aimed at filling web pages rather than informing or entertaining.

Meanwhile, incomes for writers have been driven down. The Authors’ Licensing and Copywriting Society reported a 60.2 percent decrease in authors’ incomes when adjusted for inflation from 2006 to 2022. The emergence of widely available generative AI has felt, for many, like the final nail in the coffin for writers.

Please select this link to read the complete article from WIRED.