For years, we've built real expertise through study, practice, and getting things wrong until we got them right. Now generic AI is copying it all. ChatGPT and similar tools are scraping human knowledge and turning our hard-won expertise into bland, anonymous responses. Our audiences, people who used to come to us, now ask machines instead.
Every time they do, it devalues what we've spent our lives creating.
They call it "democratising knowledge." We call it stealing expertise. But here's the thing: society needs real experts more than ever. Expertise isn't just information- it's wisdom with humanity attached. It's the nutritionist who's tried every dish herself. The travel writer who's been lost in foreign cities and found magic in the chaos.
Expertise has a name, a face, and a story. When people need answers, they should know exactly who they're talking to and why that person's opinion matters. Trust is earned, not programmed. The best insights come from people who've failed, learned, and improved. We built our knowledge. We should control how it's used and who benefits from it.
We're building something different- a world where expertise stays with its creators, audiences know they're talking to real people, and authentic voices aren't drowned out by machines.This isn't about stopping AI. It's about making AI serve experts instead of replacing us.