AI has cut my pay as a memoir writer in half | Letter
2026-05-12 · AI (artificial intelligence) | The Guardian
A memoir writer reveals the glamorous future of AI-augmented work: doing the same job but worse and for half the pay. Their employer now uses an LLM to generate drafts and pays the human writer a reduced fee just to clean up the AI's mess. Nothing says 'efficiency' like replacing skilled creative work with a robot that needs a skilled creative worker to fix it anyway.