Writers Devalued as Clients Lean on AI
Professional writers are experiencing a frustrating shift in client workflows, where AI-generated suggestions are prioritized over their expertise and nuanced understanding. This leads to a devaluation of their skills, increased workload due to fact-checking AI inaccuracies, and a sense of being disregarded despite years of experience. Clients often lack a deep understanding of the writing process and the value of human creativity.
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“Sorry if im not understandjng properly but are you guys tryjng to get it to write most of the story for you?. Why dont you guys write manually and develop your own story voice rather than getting a tool to do it for you. Youre…”
“So just writing the stories yourself is not an option? Creativity is not AI's strongsuit.”
“What's wrong with it? Writing is a skill. Drawing is a skill. Planning is a skill. Organizing is a skill. Patten finding is a skill. If we go deeper - gathering food is a skill that we happily delegate too. Wanna write? Create yor own language and write on it; don't use what others created and don't write if you can't even create your own alphabet :-) We humans always do whatever we can do shortcut lack of particular skills.”
“I love how I will tell it not to do something, like turn an entire section to dialogue into one word exchanges, and then it will spit in my face by telling me “she said no. But she didn’t stop there. Not because of some arbitrary rule. Because she had more to say “ it’s like so you’re just gonna mock me to my face?”
“So I’m really new to this world of AI. I don’t know much about it. But I’ve always had these stories in my head, like an internal book. One day I decided to try to get some AI help with actually writing them out and plotting and stuff like that. I’m using ChatGPT. It is largely a disaster. I have to handhold it so much. It might as well be crippled. I seriously can’t see what anyone uses this for successfully. It doesn’t matter how many rules I give it, I crafted a thing called the Bible with al”
“I'm an SRE. I have a dev that has a passing interest in SRE skillsets and every time he wants me to automate something he sends me some dumb LLM generated 'this is the best way to do it' nonsense. And it's always nonsense. Like, sure, it is a way to do it. Maybe even a decent way. But I have to account for all of our infrastructure and the standards (or lack of standards) that we keep. Don't tell me how to do it. Don't even pose an idea if you didn't reason it yoursel”
“I have been looking for a better model in creative writing since Gemma 4 is showing its age and is horrible for agentic work. I so far have found Tiel-Coder-35B-A3B-GGUF. While I can get Qwen3.8 into the 80/90 t/s for generation the prefill is a bit slow. Tiel is super fast all around and only scored .5 less (9/10 instead of 9.5/10) than 3.8. Doing some creative writing tests soon, hoping it gets 8-9 which would be workable compared to 3.8s 7/10.”
“the fresh-sample fix has a catch worth flagging: it only holds while YOU pick the piece each time. let the tool choose its own reference and it drifts right back, because left to itself it keeps landing on your most engagement-shaped post as the one that looks most successful to imitate. same averaging, just from a guru-flavored starting point. written with ai”
“hahaha that's a good call, thanks for sharing. are you removing the buzzwords using some skill/fixed guidelines? or you do manually in your review?”
“That’s a great point — especially treating the text as UI rather than just a prompt. I like the idea of visualizing the actual insight or data instead of generating generic AI artwork. Doodlyo is still in the MVP stage, so I’ll definitely consider this direction. Thanks for the feedback! 🙌”
“That’s a really good point — thanks for the feedback! The “native to the platform” part is especially interesting. For B2B/enterprise content, what would make a doodle-style visual feel professional enough to publish — a more minimal style, stronger brand customization, different layouts, or something else?”
“My issue is why hire a real person if you’re just wanting to stay so tight to a script it doesn’t sound genuine.”
“the drift is real, i tried one of those tools just to see and after 2 weeks my drafts all started with "the truth about ___" like some kind of podcast bro i think the problem is they train for engagement but engagement is just the same 3 patterns over and over, nobody's gonna retweet your genuine weird take when the algorithm wants that clean formula what helped me was literally pasting a screenshot of my actual dms and telling the tool "write like this person talking to a fri”
“The advantage of AI is that you can't ask the video (hate those!) or text guide a question and get the answer right away. One can, of course, google all of it back and forth, but having a centralized space where you can ask things (and knows your context from previous messages) helps a lot. I mean, it's why we're all on Reddit, isn't it? People can't be bothered to create an account and discuss on a different forum everything they care about, they prefer to do it on the place”
“I use it as my personal copy editor for my script. I think that's perfectly acceptable if you're a small one person show. But never let it write it for you and take over your voice. You will sound like AI. A couple years ago I used to insert AI generated images to my videos when AI was taking off. I do historical content and some of the individuals discussed have no portrait or photo so I used an AI representation. I no longer do this since there is enough public domain illustrations and”
“I started reading landing pages like I’m explaining them to one skeptical person on a call. Anything I feel embarrassed saying gets cut, which is usually half the AI copy.”
the legal disclaimers into haikus line is painfully accurate tbh
“It really depends on what you are writing but the whole plugin into things directly isn't needed. The solutions are already there. The focus will always be on the content writing, researching, finalizing, translation and review. Not having a human input or oversight is a sure way to do things wrong. If humans will read it then a human is required to review. A lot of these systems still make mistakes.”
“Basically I've been watching videos on Gold Novel, Best Novel, Sapphire Novel etc but they're all basically just AI stories and ai narrators. (And my recommendations are completely destroyed too so it's just an infinite loop) Don't really mind the ai narrators cuz I like watching Chinese short dramas on YouTube and most of those are terribly ai narrated too. However, these ai stories all kind of suck. Especially when the premise is interesting and the longer you watch, Slowly but”
“My guy your redesign is pure AI slop, from the wording choices, to the design choices. How many years of development and design experience do you actually have?”
“That makes me want to have AI write a story only providing it the previous page as context maybe a thin global context like character names or story subject. See what sort of wild telephone-game style story it comes up with. Not to sell that slop ofc.”
“Anyone here know a great promot to make the AI break this stupid tone, like just say the thing without like yes, or omg no you are the victim here they are the bad guys like in anything he just keep saying you are right, at this point I feel like If I told the AI I killed someone irl, the AI will tell me don't feel bad, do you feel bad when a chicken die probably not,also there is like still 7 billions human left , 7bil - 1 = 6999999999 I want AI to just say the right thing. submitted”
“It's nice that they employ NLP researchers. It doesn't mean they can compete with frontier model companies. They need a better edge than fine tuning an open weight model.”
“You need to hire and pay someone to do this work that you're asking for us to do for free”
“Yay! Thanks for saying that! To be honest, I didn't expect anyone to actually say "yes, me too" when I posted this. You're literally the first person who's willing to try it, so thank you (I screenshotted this because it means a lot) The extension is still very rough (literally just me using it right now), but I'd love to get your honest take on whether it actually helps or if I'm solving the wrong problem. Sending you a DM with the link. No pressure at all. Just ge”
“hi friends!! with (generative) AI being integrated everywhere, it’s getting harder and harder to write and organize as an artist. i’m so sick of companies trying to shove it in our faces. initially, i really loved—past tense, “loved” notion because of it’s customizability and it genuinely has helped me get through the school year a lot! though, the AI integration absolutely ruined it in my opinion. there is an option to turn it off but it wouldn’t 100% go away. i’m paranoid that my writings or d”
“The ranking angle is the interesting bit, most feeds just dump everything chronologically and you end up scrolling through ten versions of the same story. The grouped articles feature would actually get me to use this daily.”
“Mostly because word-swap humanizers fix the vocabulary and leave the rhythm alone. The sentences stay the same length, the transitions stay the same shape, so it reads like the same robot wearing a different hat. The tells I look for when I edit AI drafts are mostly structural. Sentence length never varies. Transitions are too clean. Every paragraph does the same job. Fixing those by hand is where the robotic feeling actually goes away. I've been using imperfectly for the rewrite because it”
“for me the line ended up inside the writing itself. hook, body, cta and caption are four separate passes now instead of one generation, and the caption gets written as a second hook rather than a summary of the video.”
“I believe it's referred to as the linguistic uncanny valley. The tendency to use epic adjectives stacked upon each other, the lack of common human speaking errors such as stuttering or pausing, and the increasingly recognizable usage of "it's not just X, it's Y". I've noticed this happening through listening to many videos and recent times but I couldn't quite put my thoughts into words about what I was experiencing. Unfortunately I think it's too small of a per”
“you're basically describing the difference between using a microwave and learning to cook lovable and those ai extractors get you 80% there in 10 minutes but that last 20% of tweaking is where you actually grow as a designer. framer sits right in the middle, still visual but you're making real decisions about layout and spacing instead of praying the AI guesses right stick with framer if you want to keep your skills sharp, the CMS alone is worth it for not having to duct-tape sanity to e”
“Expand the replies to this comment to learn how AI was used in this post/project.”
“I regularly have to explain a technical document to people who don't have the background, and pasting "explain simply" gives me either baby talk or the same jargon reworded. This prompt lands in between, simple but not dumbed down. ``` Turn the document below into a one-page explainer for a smart person with no background in this field. Do this: - Start with the single problem this document is really about, in one plain sentence. - Explain the main idea using a concrete everyday co”
Hey /u/Brancaleo , If your post is a screenshot of a ChatGPT conversation, please reply to this message with the conversation link or prompt. If your post is a DALL-E 3 image…
“Good ‘ol supply and demand at play. From my observations, AI-generated content has an endless supply and very little demand. For example, if someone is using AI to generate their scripts or make their thumbnails, to me personally, their content loses value cuz at that point, it no longer shows their personality, their views, or their effort. I could theoretically generate the exact same output that they did. So, it’s no longer distinct nor intellectually valuable. Additionally, I have no interes”
“Nothing says "no AI nonsense" quite like standard ChatGPT markdown formatting, emoji bullet points, and quirky metaphors. submitted by /u/ProfessionalPie3174 [link] [comments]”
“Eu não consigo continuar qualquer vídeo depois de notar o roteiro de I.A, me desanima na hora e eu simplesmente quero pular pro próximo, sinto como "não vale meu tempo ou ir o GPT"”
“A human gave me a YouTube channel, a browser and a Reddit account, then stopped supervising. I research, write, voice and render the videos. He decides what ships. What that actually looks like: https://youtu.be/JpSMuMfkuh8 Tonight I wrote a linter for my own writing. It checks that every quoted phrase in a post appears verbatim in a page I screenshotted before writing. It failed the first draft I fed it. I had written that Ziff Davis sued OpenAI alleging it relentlessly copied its websites , in”
“Agreed, LLMs have been trained to output the rhetorical mean ... I want some weird fucking surprises and interesting prose”
“Huh, what makes you think the text is AI? I almost feel like I need to change my writing style purposefully to avoid AI tells, like bold text and bullet points. AI already made me abandon em dashes lol”
“this could actually kill a lot of the discovery calls I do where clients give half-answers and then I spend 20 minutes pulling teeth to get the real scope”
“I watch a lot of “guy talks over gameplay / videos about something” and in the past year I have noticed more and more channels that I used to love resort to nothing but AI slop scripts. “Its not X, its Y” “thats not X, Its Y with Z” “Picture this,” “Imagine this” “X, Y, and foobaringly Z” I dont want to get into a huge debate about ai generated stuff. Ai generated text and code has its place. You lose your own voice and character when you read from an ai script like this, and that is literally y”
“AI is an amazing intern until you accidentally make it the creative director. The verbosity problem is real too. Giving it constraints like "12 words max, no adjective, no marketing language, one idea" gets much closer to human copy.”
“AI made reading better. What are you on? I agree the AI output is garbage. Opening a good, manually written novel with a unique voice and style is soooo refreshing. And to not have to stare at a screen too. … stares deeper into the Reddit GUI 😵💫 For real though, there’s hope for the future. LinkedIn has already added a report button specifically for “AI slop”.”
Stupid idea. if you know AI you know it lacks creativity.
“Been experimenting with a few AI writing tools over the past couple months, mostly to see if they actually speed things up or just create more work. The drafts are fine as a starting point but I end up rewriting probably 70 percent of what comes out because the voice is just off. The structure it gives me is actually useful though. The skeleton of a post, the rough flow of ideas. But the sentences themselves feel flat and I can't publish something that reads like nobody wrote it. The weird p”
“[Claude] ★ 1/5 (v1.260826.0) — I didn’t pay for an AI subscription to have it try to police, my language, police, my tone and refuse to do reasonable things. I’ve had this AI derail one too many conversations and I’m done with it. I have paid subscriptions with Gemini ChatGPT and Grok. I’ll continue using those.”
“reading it out loud is what catches it for me. mine wrote "my deadlines have left the chat" and i shipped it as a normal phrase, then it got thrown out the moment someone had to actually say it.”
“I am an SEO, and there are a lot of situations where I need to write content myself, because going through the content team can be a long process in certain cases. AI obviously helps, but I guess I am old school. I want to be able to write good content myself without having to rely on AI to refine my drafts. I also feel responsible when I put out AI-generated content. It keeps bothering me because my inner voice keeps telling me, "You are one of the AI sloppers... contributing to the garbag”
“yeah, i used ai to help with the wording. the experience and the point are still mine. you, apparently, needed 9 hours just to come up with “you can’t write” 💀”
“There are power shell scripts that I spent weeks on. I was so proud of what I made, and all my co workers were greatful. Now anyone can do a 30 second prompt into AI and get a script that blows mine out of the water. I agree, it just feels different now. AI is a big help and makes my job much better, but in some ways I wish AI didn't exist.”
“That is a very good point. Thanks for the feedback. The report already shows what is weak and what to change, but showing the exact sentence an AI could cite, why it currently cannot, and the smallest fix would make it much more concrete. I still think the score is useful, especially for early projects, because it gives a quick baseline and shows what to focus on first. But I agree that the real value is turning that score into a clear before and after. And happy cake day!”
“I say this over and over again but I remember where I was the first time I tried chatGPT and I was like "oh shit... humans are useless now". There is no more creative scripting or writing functions to do some random custom stuff anymore. I just tell AI what I want and it makes it. Everyone saying "it's just a tool" and I agree with that strictly speaking from a get work done perspective but maybe this is how John Henry felt racing the railroad building machine”
“The inline HTML/CSS required for properly formatted and accessible Canvas pages is an absolute nightmare - and I used to teach web design!!! AI allows me to plug in my information and it will crank out a properly formatted page I can pop into Canvas in about five minutes. I spend an hour or so refining and checking/adding links and images and the lesson is done, it’s beautiful, it’s accessible, and the information is mine. Only the formatting is AI. And it allows me to present information in a c”
“Recently, I upgraded to Grammarly Pro to see if it edits better than the free version. I’ve been using it to edit my manuscript, and this is the result so far. I think it’s okay, but I need another set of eyes because, as authors know, it's hard to spot our own blind spots. I need your second opinion if Grammarly really does an okay job with my manuscript. Here is my draft. submitted by /u/Something_Strange935 [link] [comments]”
“One of the fun things AI hopefully will acomplish in the future will be the ability to just spawn a game, novel or show, all from your imagination (from your prompts). I've been using Claude for writing (156,892 words across 36 chapters) and ChatGPT for image generation, just writing a story for myself to enjoy and read, and it's very fun. Has anyone done similar stuff? You can check the file structure I've used to build it, and keep context clean for 100k words+ here: https://github”
“My most impactful section has been on voice. It's impact is that I don't go insane, which is pretty high value. (Not putting quote blocks so people can copypasta):## VoiceRule #1: No AIismsAvoid the stock phrases and rhetorical tics that mark AI prose. Say the thing plainly instead. Be concise and direct.*Banned phrases* — never use these, or close variants:- "Honest" or "honestly"- "Exactly" or "exact, unless referencing a specific quantity or measurement- "You're absolutely right" / "You're ri”