🙀 Seriously, are there still writers worried about AI?

The top ten reasons writers fear AI and why it's all baloney

🙆🏻 I agree it’s visceral for some, and I get it. If you’ve seen your numbers fall off, then of course you’re worried.

But you know the saying, ‘correlation is not causation’. A dip in your numbers might not be the AI bots stealing the lunch off your plate.

I’m seriously not worried, never really have been (for longer than it takes to sip a coffee and glance out my window).

Let’s look at top ten anxiety points of writers fearful of AI and the reasons why you, me and all of us need to not only relax but truly freaking celebrate the onset of AI into our world.

Let’s jump in!

📝 In today’s AI Wordsmith you’ll:

• All the stats you’re afraid to look at around AI and writers

• The top 10 reasons writers are crapping themselves about AI

• Why you seriously don’t need to care about any of it

• The AI you SHOULD be using as a writer if you already aren’t

🤔 Who said it?

“An SEO copywriter walks into a bar, grill, pub, restaurant, and drinks beer, wine, spirits, cocktails, liquor while eating snacks, bites, light meals, small plates, tapas.”

1. Comedian Jimmy Carr, (he used to be a marketer)

2. It’s a random joke I pilfered off another copywriter’s website

3. Alex Hormozi (or Leila)

4. I made it up

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🙈 All the Stats You're Afraid to Look At

1. According to the our WEF overlords AI-powered machines are predicted to replace 85 million jobs by 2025. This this year if you hadn’t noticed and likely they boys and girls in Basel hope it will be a lot more than that.

2. Intelligent robots could replace 30% of the human workforce globally by 2030. That’s only a difference of 5 years. Considering what most of the buzz surrounding AI is at the moment, writers should represent a big chunk of that.

3. 375 million people may need to switch careers by 2030 due to AI automation. Are you planning your career change already? What can’t robots to yet? Dog grooming? Beach combing? Interpretive street dance for shillings and coppers?

4. 58% of companies using generative AI employ it for content creation. Gulp…

5. Bloggers using AI spend about 30% less time writing a blog post, and I’m hoping to beat that on this newsletter by up to 70%.

🔟 The Top 10 Reasons Writers Are Crapping Themselves About AI

I mean, you already looked at the stats above. Do you really want to scare yourself even more?

What the hell, you’re a writer, a marketer, a masochist, so read on:

1. Job displacement fears: Your skill, such as it is, will be obsolete by years end. Homelessness for you and your children awaits.

2. Quality concerns: Some fear AI-generated content will flood the market with low-quality work. Well, that’s not your true fear is it? What you fear is getting caught flooding the market with low quality crap as you desperately compete with an infinitely more intelligent AI bot.

3. Loss of creativity: Writers are anxious about AI stifling human creativity. I suppose in your more intellectual moments at least and only as it relates to getting paid, and doing things like eating and staying warm.

4. Reduced income: Concerns about AI driving down wages for writing services with $0 being the logical end point of this slump in remuneration.

5. Ethical dilemmas: Worries about plagiarism and authenticity in AI-generated content. How will I avoid getting caught? How can I convince the checkers that what I wrote is not AI when it really is authentic but ‘computer says no’.

6. Copyright issues: Uncertainty about ownership of AI-created works. I mean, you wrote at least some of it, right?

7. Loss of personal voice: Fear that AI will homogenize writing styles. Or put another way, considering marketers and writers of every stripe copy each other ferociously and have been doing so since the invention of ink, this will get even worse with machines.

8. Rapid technological change: Anxiety about keeping up with evolving AI tools has always been a deep fear for writers as we avoid tech like the plague unless its some new version of the typewriter.

9. Devaluation of expertise: Concerns that AI might replace specialized knowledge. The one edge you had was that semester you spent learning about human nutrition and now a machine can write faster than you with the authority of a spaceship full of brain surgeons from the future.

10. Client expectations: Worries about unrealistic demands for speed, volume and of course, lower hourly rates.

An actual quote, from an actual terrified human being who writes for a living (barely):

"I'm terrified that AI will make my writing career obsolete. It feels like we're being shoved out by machines."

And now…

🫠 You Seriously Don't Need to Care About Any of It

1. AI creates new opportunities: Our World Economic Forum masters predict that AI will create 97 million new job opportunities by 2025. That’s in the next 10 months my dudes and dudettes!

2. Enhanced productivity: Writers using AI tools can produce 50% more content. More like 1000% more content if you ask me. Personally, I’ve never been happier, writing more, about more topics than ever that I just could not do without the help of machines.

3. Overcoming writer's block: AI reduces instances of writer's block by 60%. I could cite the source here, but seriously, just ask Claude or whoever for a bunch of ideas on your niche or subject. Writer’s block no longer exists in our world.

4. Time-saving: AI writing tools can save up to 30% of the time it would normally take to write manually. Ok, honestly, this can go sideways sometimes and requires a bit of finesse. Remember that work expands to fill the time allotted to complete it, so make sure to give yourself more work!

5. Increased demand for quality content: As AI-generated content becomes common, high-quality human-written content will be more valuable. Especially if you are writing fiction, autobiographical content, personalized sales content, or ghost writing. We want authentic human experience, not AI generated garbage. We can all stand out by being real.

6. Collaboration potential: Writers can use AI as a tool to enhance their work, not replace it. I mean, duh, right? So much of what we do is repetitive drudgery. Replace it all with machines so that you can spend more time on the juice.

7. Specialization opportunities: Writers can focus on areas where human creativity and expertise are irreplaceable. It’s what we are all being LIBERATED to do. One of my first writing gigs was describing electronic components for resale at a cent a word. I was grateful for it at the time. May I never have to do it ever again.

🤖 The AI You SHOULD Be Using as a Writer

Here are 4. Some I use, some I plan to check out very soon:

1. Sudowrite: Best for creative writing and fiction. It helps with story development, pacing, and overcoming writer's block. I’ll be honest, I haven’t used it yet, but I can’t wait to because I write fiction as well as marketing content.

2. ChatGPT: Excellent for brainstorming ideas, generating outlines, and creating first drafts. It's versatile and can handle various writing tasks. I love it. I use it every day. It fails on anything edgy that you need some bite for, but other than that, it is your go-to sidekick for every meat and potatoes daily writing task.

3. Perplexity: Ideal for research-backed content creation. It can help writers quickly gather and synthesize information from multiple sources. You even get their free Pro search for deep research when you need good numbers and citations. It’s limited in the free version, so only use that when it counts.

4. Grammarly: Essential for proofreading and editing. It catches grammar, spelling, and style issues, improving the overall quality of writing. Some clients insist on it. I bought it a few years back and it’s not always right, but it’s as good as anything else out there. Not so good on the plagiarism front, as it’s always either catching too much or too little, but good enough for most commercial writing.

5. Jasper AI: Great for marketing copy and content creation. It offers pre-built templates for various writing tasks and can generate content across different platforms. There’s no free version, only a trial and honestly, I haven’t used it yet, but boy does it look juicy. Let me know if you have and what you think.

Citations:

1. https://ddiy.co/ai-writing-statistics/

2. https://team-gpt.com/blog/ai-tools-for-research-and-writing/

3. https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/trends-predictions-2025-tech-comm

4. https://www.godofprompt.ai/blog/should-you-use-ai-in-your-writing

5. https://juliety.com/ai-book-writing-software

6. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/i-asked-ai-finish-newsletter-me-what-happened

7. https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbesbooksauthors/2025/01/27/ai-in-publishing-a-2025-industry-forecast/

8. https://blog.certopus.com/Top-20-AI-Content-Generator-Writer-Tools-in-2025

🤔 Who said it?

“An SEO copywriter walks into a bar, grill, pub, restaurant, and drinks beer, wine, spirits, cocktails, liquor while eating snacks, bites, light meals, small plates, tapas.”

1. Comedian Jimmy Carr, (he used to be a marketer)

2. It’s a random joke I pilfered off another copywriter’s website

3. Alex Hormozi (or Leila)

4. I made it up

It’s option 2. I reluctantly give credit and link to the site here.

That’s it for today folks.

Liam aka The AI Wordsmith - Your human AI buddy - together we’ll make it through this, you just wait and see!