Jeremiah Donaldson's Blog: This and That - Posts Tagged "writing"

This year, 2023, marks a big year for me. I've got two major writing anniversaries coming up later this year (20th for first self published book and 10th for first political essay) and, through dogged determination, I've managed to get my sales picking up once more for the third time. I get a laugh at these people asking 'how much can you make as a writer' after they were lied to for 4+ years at whatever bullshit college they went to. It shows they don't understand the task. They don't understand that writing is an expensive hobby and a way to leave a mark on the world, not a 'job', unless you want to be a reporter, and even then, you're not making much unless you get some cardio and go out reporting in war zones. Sports writers are a dime a dozen and that was before 'AI'. Which I won't get into, because 'Intelligence' doesn't belong in the definition of anything that's a glorified copy/paste program that does nothing but steal any material it encounters like a malicious internet bot. And any other writing that doesn't require actual thought, research, and insight into human beings is at risk of being turned into gibberish by poorly programmed bots. Just like EVs, AI is going to take out nearly everyone stupid enough to engage with it since both are frauds. Which actually makes this a perfect time for a comeback.

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