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Although AI tools increase efficiency, genuine creativity and effective movements remain the keys to success.

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>Related: I’m intrigued by Sourcebase.ai, an AI platform designed for journalists, researchers, and professionals who need to make sense of massive amounts of source material.

Oh, you doogie-woogies. Aren't you supposed to be the ones making sense of things? If you're just repeating the sense an AI made of it, with a little bit of personal noodling at the start and the end, what do we need you for?

This has already sort of happened, though - it's pretty easy to tell when an article is just things the author saw on twitter or reddit with nothing of substance added. So no, AI isn't going to make a huge difference - lazy journalists have been able to rehash the internet instead of thinking for twenty years already...and boy have they.

You know who'll come out on top of all this? The few people who stay original, or at least rehash things other people haven't seen yet. It's them that the AI & thereafter everyone else will be rehashing.

It's not just "ideas" we're talking about. They who, like Shakespeare, invent words, lead -- it is by their clever fingers that our stage is painted bright and gaily furnish'd.

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