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T.L. Bodine's avatar

All of this. As a content copywriter by day and novelist by night, I'm more worried about the imminent safety of my day job than anything. With the current state of AI, I'm not in danger...but there are plenty of people just starting out who are, and these tools are progressing in quality at frightening speeds. Right now I have strengths the bots don't, like a capacity of empathy with a reader, an understanding of strategy, rhetorical tools to elicit certain emotions, etc. ...but that's not to say those qualities are *impossible* for an AI to "learn" if people keep leaning into and investing in that. And that's very frightening.

Like you say...we're between a rock and a hard place on this. Writing fiction doesn't pay the bills, and creating web content won't last forever if clients decide "good enough" is worth the $0 price tag. So where do we go next? idk, and I don't like thinking too long about it or I start feeling real not-great.

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Nishant Jain's avatar

"Humans care about the humanity of art."

I put it in similar words recently myself. This was a lovely read, thanks!

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