Created from a single voice note with Agent Craft
The ghostwriter industry is dying and DIY-AI is filling the internet…
The ghostwriter industry is dying and DIY-AI is filling the internet with garbage. Neither is the answer. The reason the ghostwriter side is struggling is simple. More and more people are saying the same thing. I used to pay a ghostwriter. Now I just do it myself with ChatGPT or Claude. Fair enough. But look at what that's producing. A flood of soulless AI slop. Everyone running their thoughts through the same model, getting the same flat, lifeless output, and pushing it out at volume. And people are pushing back hard. They see AI everywhere now, in writing, in video, in images, and they're calling it slop and demanding it stop. Readers are getting sharper at spotting it, and when they do, trust evaporates instantly. So here's where we are. The ghostwriter model is fading because it's expensive and slow. The DIY-AI model is filling the internet with garbage. The middle ground is the smart move, and I'll defend that. Use AI for the drudgery. The formatting, the platform-specific reworking, the sourcing of images, all the tedious stuff that comes after the actual thinking. That's what slows people down. But you stay at the center of it. The thoughts are yours. The insights are yours. A ghostwriter takes your voice and hands you someone else's. This does the opposite. Your voice, your thinking, minus the friction around it. That efficiency isn't laziness. It's the right use of the technology, the same way word processors replaced typewriters. Anyone who called for a return to typewriters back then was ridiculous. Same thing here. The genie is out of the bottle. Building: AgentCraft (dot) ai Grow your personal brand in minutes per day with voice notes
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