alt Hacker News>The more I think about it, the happier I am that AI is transforming the world of writing. In a way, I think it’ll make it even easier to stand out—because the more people take shortcuts, the less quality will remain for readers to flock to, even if the overall quantity of options is much larger.
I had some musings about this with respect to blogging. Especially because search engines are now placing their own summaries above SEO-optimized junk posts. Those posts become disincentivized. Hopefully, it leaves us with more people writing blogs for the sake of writing rather than trying to sell clicks.
The downside of this is what happens in other places. You won't neccesarily stand out.
The entities doing endless reposts are building faster bigger audiences and might or will repost your stand out piece.
If you care that you wrote it and that people enjoy it. All is good. But I'd you wanted to stand out with it or build around it. The low effort reposters might take that from you.
In a rare occasion I've even seen a reposter shorten or better edit the original piece.
Though I am still hopefully optimistic that in the long run for the good