The Truth Nikkei Didn’t Say: It Wasn’t AI That Killed Creators—It Was Everyone in This Room

Based on the Nikkei report:

https://x.com/nikkei/status/2044941295890702697

It’s unfortunate, but this news simply exposes the reality everyone has been avoiding.

AI was never competing with individual writers. It is rewriting the rules of the entire creative ecosystem through industrial‑scale production.

Works born from soul, struggle, and time are now forced to compete for visibility against texts generated in seconds—

and it’s a one‑versus‑many battle.

For original creators, this has moved beyond the realm of a challenge and has become a form of destructive pressure.

What’s even more absurd is that society is still stuck arguing about whether AI should be “allowed” to write novels, while completely ignoring the deeper question:

If creation no longer requires pain, time, or a unique soul, then what value does creation have left?

And when the internet is eventually flooded with AI‑generated content, will anyone still remember the people who once wrote with their lives?

I use AI myself. I enjoy the convenience it brings—translation, data processing, model simulation, research.

But as an author, you cannot let AI write for you. You cannot let it take over your hands, your mind, or your thoughts.

That is the real danger.

Anyone who dares call themselves a “writer” would never stoop to that.

The true engine of this pollution is the content‑farm industry built entirely for arbitrage.

They mass‑rewrite with AI, push out tens of thousands of pieces a day, and operate not as individuals but as a global industrial network.

Frankly, I believe around 50% of today’s internet is already filled with this kind of garbage— and another 30% consists of disinformation deliberately released by certain states as part of cognitive warfare.

And yes, these people are making money.

If one account earns ten dollars a day, they simply create ten thousand accounts.

That’s their logic. They don’t care what the world becomes tomorrow.

In this flood of contamination, the first to be killed are the newcomers.

No visibility means writers starve, manga artists switch careers, and artists fall silent.

They may still be creating, but their voices are drowned—

erased before they ever reach anyone.

So when AGI finally arrives, it may be shocked to discover that the amount of content truly produced by humans is no more than one‑trillionth of the entire internet.

Based on the Nikkei report, I want to add a few points:

1. The problem is not “AI novels.” The real issue is that the evaluation and screening systems were already weak.

AI merely exposed the holes that were always there.

2. AI can generate massive amounts of mid‑quality text in a short time, and platform algorithms reward frequency and volume.

Humans cannot compete in quantity.

AI dominating the rankings is not an accident—it is the inevitable outcome of the system’s design.

3. Publishers canceling book deals is a matter of brand risk and public pressure, not moral judgment.

If publishing AI‑generated books became profitable, they would do it without hesitation.

4. The real crisis is the collapse of “survival space” for new creators.

This is the most fatal wound in the entire creative ecosystem.

5. This may sting, but it’s the truth:

AI will eliminate mid‑tier and lower‑tier writers—not true creators.

True creators remain irreplaceable, at least in this era.

As someone still trying to write with a soul, I can only say this:

In this age, staying angry, staying critical, and continuing to do the “real and solitary work” may be the last meaning we can leave for the future.

TCF × V Universe may very well be the meaning of my existence at this moment.

By VON(壹叔瘋神)