The real value of writing Vs AI slop

Pangram Labs analysis found about 1 in 4 long-form social media posts are AI-generated, with nearly 2/3 of them on LinkedIn.

AI did not create commodity writing; it made such writing astonishingly cheap to produce, lowering the economics of competent prose.

Akhil Handa, board member of Bank of Baroda, noted that commodity writing was already cheap before AI, but AI changed its economics.

As the cost of producing competent prose approaches zero, the value of writing shifts to experience, insight, and foresight.

The bar for good writers moves higher because AI devalues only the part of writing that could be reduced to technique.