By skyforbes 
How I stopped outsourcing my voice to an algorithm — and started writing like myself again
I’ll be honest — I used to let ChatGPT write for me.
Not the whole thing, but enough that it stopped feeling like me. I’d open a new draft, type a few prompts like,
“Write a Medium-style article about productivity,”
and within seconds, it would hand me 800 words of perfectly structured, emotionally balanced, SEO-friendly text.
And I’d think, Wow. This is amazing.
Until one day, it wasn’t.
The Seductive Ease of AI Writing
When ChatGPT first came out, it felt like magic. You could throw it a half-baked idea and get a fully baked essay in minutes.
No more creative blocks.
No more second-guessing.
No more staring at the blinking cursor wondering where to start.
But that was also the problem.
Writing stopped being a conversation between my thoughts and the page. It became me prompting an algorithm and editing its ideas.