07/09/2026
Editing AI Output Still Requires the Skill You Don’t Have: https://1l.ink/6Q8ZM7M
The common workaround is “I’ll use AI to draft it, then edit it myself.” But editing well requires the same skill as writing well — knowing what’s weak, what’s generic, what’s missing, what to cut. If you could reliably spot and fix those problems, your own writing probably wouldn’t be underperforming in the first place.
So the AI draft doesn’t remove the skill gap. True, some AI has got better. However, underlying issues, such as generic phrasing and a lack of specificity, still remain. That makes bad editing.
A copywriter doesn’t need AI to edit.
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