Anthropic just watermarked every word Claude writes. Copywriters are celebrating. I argue that's premature. The real story isn't detection. It's that we've built a culture where writing takes minutes and reading still takes hours.
Writing is Now 20% of a Writer’s Job
The Writing Is the Easy Part Now A writer friend of mine, who once tasted critical acclaim before slipping off the literary map, called me recently to ask whether AI had killed his career. His sales had flatlined. He gestured at the Amazon charts, thick with clean, readable, aggressively optimistic titles. "Is it the algorithm?... Continue Reading →