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[–] Womble 72 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Is this particularly worse than when Medium was filled with artisinally hand crafted slop before AI was a thing?

[–] drmoose 17 points 1 month ago

As someone who writes on Medium ocassionally — no.

Medium like all other blogging platforms has a problem of incentive. The pay is too little for quality writing and there's always a gamble on whether your article gets views as you don't control SEO or even formatting for that matter.

It was always filled with low effor slop because most are either:

  • practicing writing
  • building out their brand which is basically newbies
  • trying to make pennies through low effor churn

I feel for Medium here as it does have an unsolvable problem really and AI has nothing to do with it.