✍️AI Can't Replace Writers, Yet

AI can't replicate the complexity of human writing

LLMs have hit a wall in improving prose, unable to replicate the complexity of human writing. This is a big deal for anyone who writes for a living. LLMs lack an active mental model of a specific human reader and cannot empathize with them in real time. This means that jobs requiring continuous simulation of a reader's internal state, like writing, are less likely to be affected by AI. The economic value of an authentic human voice increases as AI-generated content saturates the web. Human effort shines where AI fails, especially in navigating wicked-problems and pushing for creativity. The law of comparative advantage suggests that even if one party can produce everything more efficiently, both still benefit from specializing where their relative opportunity cost is lowest. Human labor is now infinitely high for generic and repetitive tasks, making human effort shine in complex, ambiguous tasks.