This is not an AI slop

People always say that with ChatGPT, writing is dead.

The truth is more paradoxical. AI hasn’t killed writing. AI killed some writing. It made the boring kind of writing infinitely abundant.

What remains is the harder thing: writing that originates from lived experience rather than convenience.

AI can conjure words quickly, but it cannot originate lived meaning. It cannot replace the human act of translating experience, doubt, feelings and contradiction into form.

We now produce words faster than ever, yet genuine expression grows rarer. Over time, many risk losing not just their ability to write, but their sense of having something to say. In the worst case, they risk outsourcing the act of thinking itself.

AI creates content so fast that we are now having an explosion of text. People use AI to create “AI-slops” to farm engagement or even airdrops (where some projects reward “creators” for content). I do not think LLMs are stupid in the future. LLMs will one day have the ability to ignore words written by LLMs as it strives to optimise and get better quality parameters.

I am not anti-AI. I use it frequently, and it is extremely useful for certain kinds of work.

In fact, because I use AI so often, I understand how risky it is if we forget how to create. That is why I am building a home written in my own voice.

I often write to think. The act of writing allows me to think through and discover my thoughts.

And writing is how I discover what I actually believe.