Medium Cracks Down on AI-Generated Content
What This Means for Writers
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When I started with Medium in October 2023, I thought my writing might not be good enough to compete with other writers here on this huge platform, so I improved it with Chat GPT. The results were not so great, and it sounded like it was written by an AI program, not by me, so I ended up deleting about 60 stories at the end of January this year.
This was not an easy step, and I had to say goodbye to all these stories that were initially a good idea. However, the output was so far away from my voice that I still felt a bit sad about deciding to take this step. I made peace with my loss and gradually found my own voice and last month I made my first AUD 1,000 on Medium. I am very happy with this development.
Today, when I checked my emails, I was surprised to see that Medium is completely cracking down on AI-generated content, regardless of whether it was labeled correctly as AI-generated text or not. Depending on the situation, you…
