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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“Thanks! That's exactly the challenge I'm trying to solve. I don't expect people to believe the claims just because I mention LangGraph or multi-agent workflows. My focus is on making the output genuinely feel like the user's own writing. I'm collecting feedback from early users…”
“Spotting a genuine pain point here LinkedIn's AI fluff is notoriously bad, so taking a multi-step workflow approach is definitely a clever pivot from basic prompt dumping. That said, Reddit is pretty fatigued by AI wrapper self-promotions right now, and convincing people that yet another tool can actually capture authentic personal style without just adding extra buzzwords is going to be your biggest uphill battle.”
“I use ai a lot and I automate a lot in my life. One thing I can’t stand is when someone uses ai to talk to me. It’s not the right thing to automate. Human to human connection is the point of this whole thing ain’t it? I get where you’re coming from “if people feel cared for.” But I’d personally advise against doing this.”
“A 35-year archive is an incredible asset, but trying to index or apply AI to a corpus this old usually breaks down in two specific places: parsing and ethical walls. First, you are dealing with decades of formatting changes—scanned PDFs, legacy Word docs, and complex legal formatting. Standard out-of-the-box RAG pipelines will butcher the extraction. You need an advanced parsing engine that can handle messy, unstructured legacy files without losing context. Second, and more importantly, is acces”
“https://preview.redd.it/4g76iyash4eh1.png?width=599&format=png&auto=webp&s=a5fbba80a60590cb6ba0e592f8f061abb046b0b0 Cartoon co-created with ChatGPT. See more of my AI co-creations submitted by /u/mvark [link] [comments]”
“Okay this is actually really useful, thank you for running real numbers. Sub-10/100 across 40k words is a good sign for your writing, and it checks out with what SlopCheck actually looks at: surface-level tells like phrase cliches, rhythm, and punctuation, not deep semantic "AI-ness." that's the tradeoff for staying offline and instant instead of shipping a model. So if a skill is smoothing rhythm and cutting the obvious cliches, a low score makes sense, that's the tool correct”
“Glad it landed. If you do the before/after treatment in the "Feral at work" section, that's probably the single change that would shift the strongest, since it turns the hardest-to-explain part of the product (the selection loop) into the most convincing one. Curious to see where you take it.”
“Thanks! that’s a good suggestion. A Markdown export would be useful for people who just want to read, diff or load the Act into a long context model, so I’m considering adding one as a separate format. I wouldn’t say RAG is strictly necessary because the Act is too large to fit in context. Many current models can process the whole text. The value here is more about reusable, precise retrieval, preserving article/paragraph/annex boundaries, returning exact citations, filtering by metadata, suppor”
“Yep, now you’re not just competing against humans, but against AIs generating content much faster than any human ever could. Are you ready for this new game?”
“So are we going to end up at a point where AI spends vast computing power reading things any that humans don't want them to read, while the humans get a worse experience because everyone is bending over backwards trying to stop the AI reading things.Captcha was bad enough.”
“Three months in and you're already tracking authority metrics - that's solid. Using Claude and Codex for content generation is smart, but watch out for over-reliance on AI-written material without human review. Google's getting better at detecting that stuff. Focus on building genuine topical authority with original research and expert input alongside your AI workflow.”
“Hi fellow freelancers, just wondering if anybody had any suggestions for alternatives to ProWritingAid? I've been using it for years, but they've recently changed the UI again, which makes it even clunkier than before. That's the last straw for me, as the quality has gone down year after year. I predominantly use PWA for spell checking/grammar checking Wordpress posts in Chrome, but I also edit documents inside Microsoft Word. I'd prefer something that has a browser and Word plug”
“I think all the comments are good ones…I guess I am going to have to yield to that fact that technology and ease of access will always win out. I’m pretty tech savvy…I just hate to see the human element removed more and more…and businesses seem proud of it. Thank to everyone for the discussion….”
“been getting genuinely decent results with ai writers this year and want to push the workflow one step further. the pattern i noticed: drafts come out way better when i paste in my own serp notes first... what page types are ranking, which subtopics every top result covers, what the intent actually looks like. when the tool has that context the output is honestly 80% there. without it, its writing blind from training data and i rewrite half. so now im wondering if theres a tool that does that st”
“Hi everyone, I've been trying to find a good AI humanizer, but it's honestly getting difficult to know which recommendations are genuine. A lot of search results and reviews seem heavily promotional, so I'd rather hear from people who have actually used these tools. I'm mainly looking for something that: Makes AI-generated text sound natural Preserves the original meaning instead of rewriting everything Works well for essays, blog posts, and academic writing Doesn't require a”
“If American companies can train their LLMs with my works then I can train my LLMs with their works. AND: My works are protected by international copyright laws and conventions while LLM output is not protected by any copyright laws - because machine output can not be copyright protected...”
“Write initial notes Write script based on notes Spar with AI regarding content & structure Done”
“Sharing this because it cost me almost nothing and i keep thinking about it. I started seeing a few signups trace back to ai tools, chatgpt and perplexity mostly. made me curious so i asked those same tools about my own product and honestly it was humbling. they got my pricing wrong, missed features, one flat out made something up. and for a micro saas that lives or dies on people getting what you do in about ten seconds, thats a real problem. the reason turned out to be boring. my pages are bui”
“How are you thinking about the cost side of this? Running AI summarization across that many sources per story adds up fast, especially if you start getting real traffic. Curious if youve modeled that out yet.”
“AI is a meme lol, signed, a PM. Just say you MCP into JIRA to help write epics and stories”
“> training someone’s vision model I dunno man. It still tells you when you’re wrong. It’s like doing taxes, it knows the fucking answer but asks you anyway.”
“https://preview.redd.it/d51yd360ogdh1.png?width=466&format=png&auto=webp&s=ceef9022ac0fe2c5fe76b4424450d8328bf8cb08 I can not expand it but if it is wrong. If you look at the bottom and say thats not right it will do a sub exapansion on what it actually was to help train it. I will also look in the back end as to what is happening.”
“> I don't think that's a safe assumption. You could construct an article pretty quickly if you had a topic, a few points to hit, a conclusion and a short list of links, then fed that to the machine. All the LLM would be doing is fluffing it up with worthless words, unnecessary metaphors and maybe a pop culture reference or two so it looks like what people expect from an "article."We’re not disagreeing? That’s basically what I said: The AI wrote the article. Saying it drafted the article is a way”
“I want to be one of the greats. And I have a meta project I’m working on at this moment and I need it to be great. My question is, what is the best way to present my dialogue? I’m currently doing it through quotation marks but I know that a lot of books do not do this, should I also drop my quotation marks or not? Thank you in advance. submitted by /u/Latter-Glove9418 [link] [comments]”
“For meetings, a lot of transcribing apps have direct connections to Claude. My email is hooked in as well. I use a prompt similar to ensure everything is captured. (Scan my inbox for all emails received in the last [30 days] that mention [Project Name/Topic]. Search for keywords like "[Keyword 1]", "[Keyword 2]", and "[Keyword 3]". Compile the most relevant threads, extract the key updates, decisions, and action items, etc etc) Claude has made my job so much easier,”
“Sounds clever. Are you feeding it by hand every meeting transcript, every relecant email, etc.?”
“The insight about context beating model is spot on. Everyone chases the newest model for voice cloning, but a smaller model with the right retrieval pipeline beats a frontier model that's guessing. Your point about knowing who Sarah is and what you promised her — that's basically RAG applied to personal relationships. The writing voice is almost a side effect; the real product is the system understanding your context. Curious about the memory setup — are you doing semantic search over pa”
“The insight about context beating model is spot on. Everyone chases the newest model for voice cloning, but a smaller model with the right retrieval pipeline beats a frontier model that's guessing. Your point about knowing who Sarah is and what you promised her — that's basically RAG applied to personal relationships. The writing voice is almost a side effect; the real product is the system understanding your context. Curious about the memory setup — are you doing semantic search over pa”
“tbh the biggest problem with auto-generated docs isnt accuracy, its that they end up reading like a dump of every function signature with no narrative. does this produce anything that actually helps a new dev understand the architecture, or is it more of a reference wiki”
“I haven't experienced a hallucination in a long time. Since it's built on and references my content only, there's no need for it to hallucinate. Regardless, I know my program inside out, so I would spot an inaccuracy immediately. I'm trying to even think of the last time that happened 🤔 Basically the way I work with it and the way I recommend it be done is to effectively create your own RAG. Since it has no need to assume anything, it just finds the information from your documen”
“AI text is just a quick heuristic for garbage. But I’ve always disliked garbage. Even when it came dressed like:How to use MonadsWhen David James was a young child, his mother used to tell him that you could oil vegetables before putting them in the pan. On the ranch in Eastern Kentucky David’s mornings would be spent watering, caring for the cows, and then playing with the dogs. Before he started blah blah blah… and then he defined a structure called a monad with three properti”
“Yeah absolutely. I am going to check that out. I will look forward to reading your post if you ever make it :)”
“Yeah, I consider myself entry to mid-level at using AI for PM stuff. Essentially I use it to make first drafts and take over from there”
“https://trentmkelly.substack.com/p/practical-attacks-on-ai-text-classifiers ZeroGPT is notoriously unreliable and only really even exists to sell you "humanizer" tools. The serious competitors in the field like Pangram and GPTZero (which is where ZeroGPT stole their name, lol) are really solid. I've personally tested them with tens of thousands of known-truth documents and their accuracy is stunning.”
“AI is good at making a very shallow rough draft before it turns into manuscript 0.01. it can guide some areas nicely with wording, but yeah, writing a story is still 100% domain of humanity for quality. A human using AI as a sort of side editor works well, but not as the creative front...then you get slop. Use the tools properly and you got a timesaver. use it instead of yourself and you got a slop machine. It will never take risks or go outside of typical safe tropes. its...not great. most writ”
“I know you can connect AI to Jira or ClickUp or whatever, but honestly I don't think that's enough. Those tools only contain part of the story. Okay sure, but collectively across all your tools, that's a hell of a lot of the story. It doesn't need every single thought in your brain. You're basically asking for what I wish wasn't called a Second Brain. Many of us did this perfectly fine by hand before LLMs, and LLMs have enhanced the process. Set aside the stupid name, it&”
“I know the request sounds strange and i hope i can explain. I use novelcrafter and write stories for my own amusement. I know others understand that writing is not just telling it to write a story as you yourself have to plot the thing but i regress. The AI has a back....space? sorry i don't know the term, where you can instruct it through system messages. I would have provide a picture but its not allowed. I struggle with dialogue and sometimes i don't know what i want characters to say”
“Hm this voice-matching idea is actually pretty cool i've seen so many AI-generated scripts just sound robotic and off-brand matching the creator's natural speech patterns could make a real difference especially for educational content for talking head videos the biggest script win is usually nailing the hook and pacing people decide in the first 8 seconds whether to keep watching so the script needs to front-load curiosity or a clear promise also worth tightening the middle, cut any expl”
“Slop was certainly a word. But before genai I don't ever recall it being used to refer to writing, code, images, etc. Sloppy, sure, but I don't think an incompetent "journalists" work would have ever been referred to as slop.”
“Yeah, but the ‘creative’ and ‘human’ aspect is going to be part of the generating process. Giving random options for verbal pauses, ellipses split with a ‘but’ instead of comma, semicolon… im sure are already a part of the instruction.”
“Eh, I just feed it what I need, and quadruple check the output. The AI is only as good ad the person. My legal ai - Chat gpt - works fine. It's not like 4.0 or even 5.2, but I meet it where it's at and double check everything. Mine has the FRCP built in.”
“That's definitely my most used skill at the moment. I actually wrote an entire newsletter article on it last week if you wanted to give it a look. I also linked a custom skill framework at the bottom. I'm totally not promoting my newsletter, but it is super relevant to you here. I have mine tell the next terminal where all of the knowledge bases we use are, what projects we're working on, how we go about organizing and working inside those projects, and more. It's really built ou”
“For some reason Claude Fable is an atrocious writer on the tasks I give it. Like imagine that expert witness who has been working in some obscure scientific field and has no ability to communicate. That's fable's writing. I've had the best luck with Gemini's writing. submitted by /u/Lukose_Feysal [link] [comments]”
“Hi all! I have been listening to podcasts for quite awhile and have been wanting to start my own (documentary style). I know that it’s not recommended to use AI to write your script (I understand and agree why) but what about asking it to fix grammatical mistakes in your script ? English is my second language and addition to my accent I do not want to make a grammatical mistakes especially since my podcast is documentary style and I want to show the respect to the theme for making sure there is”