It's vastly important problem, as a person who tries to reach some new understandings in my own writing, even I don't succeed, I'm worried a bit about AI. Perhaps less so now than months ago, even though it's probably gotten more powerful. Essentially as of now, AI can't provide real human insight. And some pieces I've read were clearly written by AI, and droned on with repetition and drabness. Who knows what will happen in the future.

I try to remind myself how vehemently Socrates objected to that new technology that would ruin learning and thought. It was call the alphabet. Then how truly learning would be ruined and booklovers would perish because of the crudity of the invention that destroyed real book production. That was Guttenburg press. It increased production from 20K books a year to 1 million rapidly, lowering the price instantly to make reading more affordable.

The newspapers, starting the 1800s, really ramped up daily production of idea and dissemination of ideas, news, truth and opinions, not all good. It got writing into even more hands almost daily. Later, it was derided as a bunch of muckrakers. Mandatory education later on put books into (almost) literally everyone's hands. I got my first internet modem from my sister in the mid 1990s, and could start to look various information, most emails though. Now we have cell phones spreading writing globally, instantly, into billion or hands that were never literate.

Two of the many lessons I learned stand out. The first is that people always enjoy cheap trashy entertainment. Greek tragedies were not always successful and contained much cheap entertainment. Oedipus Rex was an exception. The romans spectators love gladiators, exotic animals being fought. Ovid's Metaphoses was an exception. What we remember as "great literature" all way up to the 1900 were really great, but not widely read, with some exceptions, and were surround by vaudvilian trash, so to speak, or a see of mediocrity, or even good books deemed not important by the gatekeeper of history, literature, philosophy. AI for now seems like a producer of listicle blandness, unable to produce anything lasting.

The internet in general is far more fully of listicle trash than Medium. I would still say it's the best platform to engage thoughtful writers like yourself. I am personally horrible at self-promotion, so I can't give you advice there. But itis important.

Let me know how to provide you with an obscure piece of unpublished writing for your magazine-publication and you can print it for free. I'm certain you might agree that difficult obscure writing that is deeply engaging, as this piece tries to be, can't outperform the mass produced AI trash that is vastly successful. It's clear the a discerning reader like yourself is a discerning reader. While everyone enjoys a bit of trashy escapism (guilty here for sure), the search for insight is not prized and sought out, and enjoyed probably by the same percent since Socrates saw deep and meaningful learning being destroyed by the scandalous new technology sure to destroy memory and working of the mind, the alphabet.

Thanks much your research and thoughts into this topic.