I love writing. I’m finishing another book on digital accessibility, and I have some fiction drafts that are already over a hundred pages long, which I hope to publish someday. Much of what I write is publicly available, such as the content on my blog, lectures, and articles for partners. Other things are not, such as the books I published with Senac and Casa do Código.
But this text is different. I’m not going to talk about coding tips or accessibility news. I want to talk about the habit of writing.
The act of writing requires a series of essential human skills. It begins with organizing ideas and extends to constructing content in a way that is clear and understandable. Writing also requires practicing reading, since much of my content comes from studying texts written by others. And having a broad repertoire of ideas and references is great for developing your writing skills.
Of course, I’ve questioned the use of AI to write my texts. I mainly use it to revise content, but I still avoid producing content from a prompt. I did some experiments with short videos, asking AI to create a script following the style of my videos. The result was a ChatGPT-style text that I abandoned in my drafts. Today, this kind of homogenization is noticeable in certain videos on social media.
It’s inevitable that we’ll use AI to help us create content. Every day, we’re delegating more and more tasks to machines. Most of the time, these are repetitive tasks or tasks where we need to speed up a process. We can’t ignore such a powerful technology that is increasingly dominating the internet.
But with the benefits come the challenges.
In December 2025, a study indicated that more than 50% of the text content on the web is created by AI. And the trend is expected to continue. We already have AI-created content based on other AI-created content, and so on. AI is also present in scientific articles. Another study suggests that one in seven articles has been influenced by AI in its creation.
The great advances in artificial intelligence have made me reflect on how we are increasingly delegating responsibility to machines. Consequently, this brings new challenges. This article from Carta Capital adds a bit more bitterness to this story.
There is a risk that we will become too dependent on AI to perform simple tasks, such as writing, reading, or even interpreting a text. That’s where the passage from the article that raised a red flag for me comes in:
It’s not about selling AI as an assistant to enhance human capabilities, but about atrophying our basic capabilities so that they can be performed by machines and sold back to us as basic (and poor) services.
— Letícia Cesarino, Carta Capital
Making everything so easy that humans lose the ability to write just so this convenience can be sold back to us seems petty to me. Instead of stimulating human cognitive development, it seems that there is a movement to make us dumber.
Practicing writing helps keep the brain active. I don’t want to demonize technological advancement. We have great tools that can make our daily lives easier. A simultaneous translation tool, for example, is essential, but learning a new language helps maintain synapses. We went from typewriters to computers, then to smartphones and the world of wearables. We are changing the way we interact with the world. Just as we exercise to take care of our bodies, we need to exercise our minds more often. In a world surrounded by short videos everywhere, reading becomes an important workout for the mind. And writing becomes an abdominal plank.
I know my texts will become part of an AI training dataset, where they will be mixed with other content. But at least I’m aware that they are still content produced by a human. Having a blog may seem nostalgic, but I know I’m not alone. There are still many good people who write relevant content, even knowing that their texts may be displayed by an AI without generating a “page view“. It’s part of the game.
Therefore, I have another suggestion: publish open content. Beyond what’s posted on walled social networks, write on a platform that is open to everyone. Beyond the discussion about the importance of writing, there’s another issue affecting the content we publish online. One day, we may not have social networks as we know them today, and it would be a shame to lose all this content produced by humanity, even the most ephemeral content. Do I seem too pessimistic? Remember that we already lost everything that was on Orkut in 2014. In 2013, I already wrote about this, and the question remains: Will the material produced today be open and discoverable? That’s another problem we’ll discuss in another post.
Let’s continue learning how to use AI to improve our writing, but we need to stay in control. Using it wisely is good for everyone.
This text isn’t perfect, and that’s the beauty of content produced by humans.
Let’s be resilient! Let’s keep writing!
