"I started to get clients coming to me and talking about AI, she says some even brazen enough to tell her how great it was that we don't need writers any more. She was offered work as an editor checking and altering work produced by artificial intelligence. The idea was that polishing up already-written content would take less time than writing it from scratch,"
"I now had to meticulously fact-check every single thing in the articles. And at least 60% of it would be completely made up, she says. I would just end up rewriting most of the article. So something that would take me two hours when I was writing it by myself now took me four hours, making half the money. To add insult to injury, Bowman's few remaining clients have sometimes accused her of using AI to create her work."
Jacqueline Bowman pursued writing from childhood, interned at a local newspaper, studied journalism and freelanced in content marketing to pay the bills. She went full-time freelance at 26 and wrote daily, but in 2024 layoffs and publication closures reduced her work. Clients shifted toward AI-generated content and offered her reduced-fee editing roles to polish AI output. Editing AI content required meticulous fact-checking because much was fabricated, doubling the time needed while halving income. Bowman often rewrote most articles and faced accusations of using AI despite not doing so. She suspects large language models were trained on her past work but cannot afford legal action.
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