Now it’s easier than ever. So the market explodes. But it makes legit writers harder to find. Its bleak.

And even at that point, others will continue to write using AI to simulate being one of those people.

The thing is ... ideas matter just as much as the writing. You cannot simply say: "Hey Claude, write me a Sherlock Holmes pastiche set in the bronze age."

I have found that a 1:4 to 1:8 ratio gives nice results. That is, for every 4-8 paras of expected output, you must provide 1 para worth of character detail, plot beats etc. So you would need 100-200 pages of your own writing to produce 800 pages worth.

But most people are lazy. So the output is too.

Doesn’t really matter what the original motivation was (money, reputation, fame), people will use LLMs as a shortcut to generate text, and we’re all poorer because of it.

Now you can do it in minutes, get 50 books out, 20 of them sell 10 copies, you've earned $200.

(i might be exaggerating the times and earnings, but the point stands)

Some HR systems even support that and have AI writing/rewording integrated.

Corporate hellscapes intensifying, I guess.

Both the internet and books have been flooded with ‘content’ which appears like human content but has no coherence or intention to it and tends to fall apart completely the longer form the story.

Even our autocomplete is being infected with LLM suggestions, distorting and guiding how people write.

This is a VERY significant problem for our culture long term.