Now that your newsletter is AI-generated, I've Unsubscribed

I've remained subscribed to some newsletters for over 20 years. The authors managed to keep my attention all that time. But then, one day, they decided to switch to an AI-generated newsletter without making any announcement. After a couple of weeks of blue high-tech image thumbnails, I simply hit unsubscribe. Here's what happened: a person earned my trust. He maintained that trust for all those years. But then he thought the best way to improve was to take himself out of the equation. If you're just going to present me with prompt-generated content, I hate to break it to you but I have access to ChatGPT, and I can do that myself. The reason the human voice matters to me is because there's real experience behind the words. The oldest newsletter in my inbox is from when I was just 12 years old. It was from a French writer I used to read. After a decade of following him, the emails stopped coming. I was only reminded a few years later, when the emails started coming back. I didn't jump…