Is anyone still paying for content writers?
- Thread starter Alfa3
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- Jan 4, 2021
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Many still pay real writers- AI helps, but human tone and expertise are hard to replace especially for high-quality content.
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Search engines claim to be able to filter out fully AI-generated content - however i'm not sure how AI-generated content, then modified by a human, would perform. I believe for best results, images are also still needed. i believe AI generated images are still more detectable than real pictures
Terry Daviison
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- May 17, 2026
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Absolutely, people are still hiring, but the game has completely changed. Generic AI content straight out of ChatGPT doesn't rank or convert anymore because Google detects the predictable patterns easily.
The high demand now is for "AI Humanizers" or writers who use AI for speed but do heavy manual editing, deep formatting, and strict fact-checking to give it a 100% human flow. Agencies are definitely paying top dollar for writers who can bridge that gap efficiently!
Terry Daviison
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Exactly! Most people just copy-paste a 5-word generic prompt and expect a masterpiece. It takes structured section-by-section prompting, fine-tuning the tone, and manual editing to strip away those predictable AI footprints before it's actually web-ready.
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In the time it takes to do all that, a person could write it themselves.
Terry Daviison
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That's definitely true for a single 1,000-word article! Doing it manually from scratch wins there.
But when you're managing content production at an agency level—say 50 to 100 articles a week across different niches—humanized AI workflows become a massive lifesaver. It allows you to build out deep semantic structures and comprehensive factual data in seconds, leaving the writer to focus 100% of their energy purely on the hook, flow, and creative editing. It’s more about scaling the structural research phase than skipping the actual writing craft.
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And at the end of that process, it's still soulless AI slop.
Terry Daviison
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Haha, fair point! If it's done poorly, it absolutely turns into soulless AI slop, and Google is rightfully nuking those sites. That's why 95% of AI content out there fails.
The remaining 5% relies entirely on the skill of the editor. If the person editing doesn't know the niche, can't add real-world expertise (E-E-A-T), or fails to inject a unique brand voice, it stays slop. But if an expert writer uses AI purely as a fast research assistant and heavy-lifts the actual storytelling, hook, and narrative manual-style, the end reader won't even know. It all comes down to the integrity and skill of the human behind the screen at the end of the day.
lordprinceking
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yes, people are still hiring good content writers. Manual editing is still needed, cant go 100% AI
Orozuz
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Yeah, they think it's either paying a human for an article or entering chatgpt "write me a good article" and then they complain that ai is the problem. Ai is a tool, the problem is the user that doesn't know how to use the tool.
If you are efficient, you can make all of that real quick and have a good workflow, and get the article for free.
I don't think we are in the right place to talk about soulless stuff, considering most strategies here are soulless, automations, spammy, smm panels, bots, etc. If someone asks here about articles, I really think they aren't considering it for their art blog, but just to rank easy and grab a few bucks.
digitalkrowd
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Human touch and expressions still requires. The story or content approach deeper if its linked with emotions so competetion is still harder.