this post was submitted on 12 Jun 2026
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Is it really that crazy?
Professional writing has always been about throwing as many ideas out there until something catches on. You can sit there and draft over and over again, trying to write the perfect story but if it doesn't get picked up then it doesn't get picked up.
AI takes advantage of this. Our world already cared more about fake productivity and quantity more than quality.
If you're an older author then you don't really care. You can probably use your written works that are popular with AI to get a bit lazy as long as you check over everything and slip in some originality here and there. All the while you use your reputation from before AI became popular and tell people it isn't AI.
Meanwhile new authors have to deal with all the AI content that's out there, content that is constantly being made at a rate faster than anything they can put out.
This isn't a defense. This is just me pointing out that this isn't going away on its own.
Jesus fucking Christ.
If I'm wrong, if you think my comment is stupid then why don't you prove it?
I'll happily edit my own comment with sources if you'd like. I think it's common knowledge that most writers don't break out on their first published work though and that even afterwards most authors gain most of their revenue from backlist and back in print titles overall. Actually, I have the sources ready now if you'd like them.
My point was not to say this is a good thing but to point out that there is absolutely an incentive to cheat this way.
A full-speed race to the bottom!
Starting to think about a Neu-Amish movement where we just stop with tech advancements post 2020 and live like it's 2019 again. Shit, I'll give up LTE and 5g to live in a world without social media.
If I need someone to generate slop and feed it to slop-eaters, I'll hire someone to do it so I don't have to be involved with any of them.