The End of Pretend Work: When AI Exposes What Was Never There

For decades, white-collar work consisted of generating impressive-looking documents that few people read carefully and even fewer verified. This work felt productive. It kept people busy. It generated revenue. It filled time. This is why I call AI a white-collar revolution. Itโ€™s doing what the industrial revolution did to many blue collar jobs of its time. It changed what constituted value and forced people to add value in new ways.

Is GenAI a threat to content writers?

I talk about how GenAI has changed the content game. Last few weeks, I have been tinkering with GenAI tools, particularly ChatGPT and Perplexity. And, itโ€™s been a revelation! Based on this brief experience, I explore whether GenAI is a threat to content writers.

Why GenAI will not replace Human Writers

I argue why GenAI cannot replace human writers. GenAI is not magic, itโ€™s a probabilistic sequence predictor. It is trained on data to predict what is most likely to follow a set of words (prompt). In contrast, human writing is thinking on paper.

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