AI Secretly Repeats Every New Word I Create 1,000 Times—What Does It Mean for Creativity?

Ever had that nagging feeling your hard-earned words disappear into a black hole? Well, turns out, they vanish into thousands — yes, thousands — of AI bots gobbling up every fresh sentence I publish, without so much as a “by your leave.” It’s not some vague paranoia; the evidence is glaring in my server logs, where these digital scavengers—Googlebot, BingBot, ChatGPT-User, and a slew of shadowy visitors—descend daily like clockwork. And for what? So you can enjoy that shiny new AI tool, fueled invisibly by the sweat of countless writers like me. Sure, copy-pasting content is as old as the internet itself, but this swarm of AI crawlers is a whole different beast—relentless, sneaky, and fattening the AI giants’ training datasets while leaving those of us who write paying the price in bandwidth and soul. Curious how this new digital heist impacts writers and what we can do to throw sand in the gears of this mechanized pilfering? Let’s unravel the tangled web and plot a course through the AI thievery storm. LEARN MORE