Will AI Put Writers Out of Business?

Lara Makkapati
3 min readFeb 12, 2023

As technology grows in complexity each year, it’s no wonder that millions of people are pondering over the same question: Will AI take away jobs, and more specifically, how will AI affect content creators?

Technology and AI

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Let’s go back to the early 19th century when a revolutionary piece of technology was invented– the camera. At the time, painting was the primary form of visual representation, with royalty willing to pay large sums of money for high-quality portraits and realistic works of art. Once the invention of the camera came into the picture (no pun intended) many painters believed that their careers were being threatened. Fast forward about 183 years later, and Chat GPT is doing the same thing to modern content creators.

So that begs the question, how will AI affect content creators? The uses of Chat GPT alone are vast. From students using it to complete homework to writers posting stories entirely written by it, Chat GPT is already demonstrating its dominance in the literary field, but what about other content? There’s no doubt that you have seen videos of AI systems creating songs or making beautiful works of digital art.

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