The Shocking Truth Behind How A.I. Took My Writing Career—And What It Means for All Creatives

When I first became a writer, I never thought I’d be competing with machines. Deadlines, tough clients, creative burnout, sure. But a robot that could mimic my voice and undercut me on price? That wasn’t in the career guide.

Yet here we are.

So far, I’ve lost several freelance clients and three steady writing and editing jobs to A.I. The details are different each time, but the pattern is eerily familiar: years of experience, commitment, and skill, suddenly deemed replaceable by “emerging technologies.”

First Wave (2023)

In spring 2023, my longest-running gig (four years of steady blogging and editing with a fantastic client) vanished almost overnight.

I was called into a Zoom meeting and told that I would no longer be needed, and after we hung up, there were tears — lots of them.

Why was I being let go? Because ChatGPT had just entered the scene and every business that thrived on content was enthralled. Everyone wanted to experiment with “machine-written content.” To them, it was faster, cheaper, and “good enough.”

My client told me that the flooded market was throwing Google analytics into chaos, and their blogs were starting to bleed money. They needed to pause production, shift their thinking, look for cheaper solutions.

I chose to believe them. Sure, blogging had always been clickbait + affiliate links = profits, so why not replace the middleman with a robot?

Never mind the time I’d spent building their brand voice, researching niche markets, and ensuring every word actually resonated with readers.

But none of that mattered. The shiny new robot writer won out.

Corporate Restructuring (2025)

Because of my disappearing freelance clients in 2023, I had to branch out and find a more steady, salary-based content writing job.