I feel like a criminal.
I am the kind of person who has an endless list of books of their wishlist but only pulls the trigger to buy when a a book is severely discounted on Spanish Amazon Kindle.
Like Deep Work last week.
(have you read it??)
0,99 euros.
I kid-you-not.
Here is the receipt 👇
Yet at the same time, I ran into a physical book shop and purchased a 30 euro book from an author I have never heard of because it was a signed copy (I am a sucker for signed copies 🙄)
Or the time when I pre-ordered a book at full price because I just loved being part of the behind the scenes of the author's journey (mind you I don’t do pre-orders. I will read the reviews, overanalyze the table of contents and wait until the marketing hype settled to decide on purchasing).
I am currently going through an entire fantasy series just to experience a tandem read for the first time (reading two books simultaneously switching back and forth by chapter to experience parallel timelines of plots that unfold together). It’s screaming out loud brilliant.
Personalization, creative marketing and unconventional reading experiences are just a few examples of incentives that will drive where we put our attention to in this post-AI content era. The bar is low to publish yet high to get people truly excited about your content.
But can you imagine having the same emotional impulse reaction towards a book written by artificial intelligence in less time than my daily dog walk?
To tell you the truth, I am not worried anymore.
Briefly, I thought I made the biggest mistake of my life quitting my scientist job to become just another wirter and content creator on the internet. Talk about bad timing.
But I am at peace with the idea that there is an audience for everything.
There always has been.
And to no surpise, there WILL be an audience for AI content 🤷🏼♀️. Let them.
So instead of outrage, I feel empowered. That I am still in control of that decision how I want to create. And if we need to pivot, oh then we will.
In the meantime, share your writing despite of what’s going on in the AI content world. Because this, too, is part of the landscape now:
Some people won’t put the effort anymore because its not worth to compete against mass output
Some people may risk their reputation trying to AI their way out of being vulnerable and honest.
Some people will share midslop.
There is a reader out there that is waiting for your imperfect human writing.
And an impulse decision to click follow.
Keep up the audacity,
Laura
