As someone who writes on Medium ocassionally — no.
Medium like all other blogging platforms has a problem of incentive. The pay is too little for quality writing and there’s always a gamble on whether your article gets views as you don’t control SEO or even formatting for that matter.
It was always filled with low effor slop because most are either:
practicing writing
building out their brand which is basically newbies
trying to make pennies through low effor churn
I feel for Medium here as it does have an unsolvable problem really and AI has nothing to do with it.
Is this particularly worse than when Medium was filled with artisinally hand crafted slop before AI was a thing?
As someone who writes on Medium ocassionally — no.
Medium like all other blogging platforms has a problem of incentive. The pay is too little for quality writing and there’s always a gamble on whether your article gets views as you don’t control SEO or even formatting for that matter.
It was always filled with low effor slop because most are either:
I feel for Medium here as it does have an unsolvable problem really and AI has nothing to do with it.