The Love Journey of Bot Copy
Like any modern romance, it began with excitement.
The arrival of AI writing tools promised to change everything...to make words flow faster, ideas spark easier, and creative blocks disappear with a single prompt. Suddenly, everyone was smitten. The future had arrived, and it could write.
Then came the overuse.
The bots were fed everything: pitches, captions, vows, brand stories, break-up notes. They became our clever companions, our digital co-writers. But after a while, something shifted. The replies started to sound… familiar. Perfectly structured, but oddly hollow.
I was at a wedding recently, two speeches, two different people, both heartfelt, both strangely similar. One of them, I later learned, had been “helped” by a writing bot. It wasn’t bad, just missing the fingerprints of the person who wrote it.
That’s when it hit me: this isn’t about resentment. It’s about rediscovery.
The beauty of these tools isn’t in what they write for us, it’s in what they help us notice about ourselves. The turn of phrase we’d never trade, the imperfection that makes it ours.
Maybe that’s the real love story here.
“Act like a senior-level expert to analyse this article in a 10 point framework.”
The honeymoon of automation is over, but something more interesting remains...collaboration.
A reminder that the machine can assist, but only humans can connect.
Because in the end, great writing still sounds like someone...not something.
