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It takes only a look around to see AI technology is in the midst of a meteoric rise. The proliferation of it was most recently highlighted during the Super Bowl, with nearly a quarter of the game’s ads (15 out of 66) involving AI in some way, according to a report by Adweek. Considering ChatGPT had more than 800 million users weekly in 2025 — and that the platform is helping design everything from toothpaste to specialty Coca-Cola products – Resourcera estimates that around 1 in 10 people alive today use AI.
Part of the appeal of the tech is its user-friendliness, allowing anyone to give an AI model instructions in plain language, no coding required. Because AIs like ChatGPT or Anthropic’s Claude are Large Language Models, trained on nearly immeasurable samples of the written word, many users turn to them to generate essays, cover letters, summaries and other kinds of writing.
But for individuals who engage with writing not as a task to get done but rather as a craft to hone – journalists, authors, screenwriters and educators – the rapid spread of AI has raised multiple concerns about how the new technology is impacting their fields.