https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/n7ebkz/writers-are-becoming-ai-prompt-engineers-a-job-which-may-or-may-not-exist

“I literally lost my biggest and best client to ChatGPT today,” a Reddit user going by Ashamed_Apricot6626 posted on the freelance writers subreddit, claiming that the text-generating AI tool had caused them to stop writing and sign up to be a driver for Doordash. The post went massively viral on Reddit and Twitter, and has led to doomsayers suggesting the end of the content writing profession.

The user is just one of many freelance writers on Reddit openly worrying about the future of their profession. Amidst the ongoing hype over content-generating AI models, posts have begun to crop up across the site as writers fret about their careers when AI tools can generate paragraphs of passable text in mere minutes at a fraction of the cost.