Can AI Steal Your Voice?

What if a machine could write like you?

July 27, 2025

Hey friend,

David was 36 when he published his first novel. It was a story shaped during sleepless nights, typed while the kids were asleep, fueled by coffee and stubbornness. A year later, the book wasn’t winning awards or trending on TikTok…

But something strange happened.

A reader messaged him and asked: “Did you write this?” — with a link to a short story generated by AI.

It sounded a lot like him. Same rhythm. Same melancholy. Even similar dialogue pacing.

But he hadn’t written it.

👁️ The truth is: AI can now mimic your voice

Big tech companies are feeding their models with millions of books, stories, blog posts — often without asking permission. These models learn how we write, what we say, and why it resonates.

This is already happening to fiction writers, bloggers, and poets alike. Even fanfiction communities are being scraped.

🤔 What can you do as a writer?

Here are a few real steps David took (and you can too):

✅ Register your work. Use your country’s copyright system or tools like Safe Creative
✅ Add copyright notes on your website or docs
✅ Don’t upload full manuscripts online, unless necessary
✅ Educate your audience about where your voice truly lives — in your experience, not just your words

💬 David’s reflection

“The AI could echo my tone, but it didn’t know what I had lived. My failures, my grief, the way my hands shook during that last scene... That’s what made the story mine.”

If you’re a writer, your voice matters.
And yes, it's worth protecting.

Next week, I’ll tell you what happened when David tried to live off his books — and what he learned when the money didn’t show up.

Till then,
✍️ Keep creating, even when it’s quiet.

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👉 Did this resonate with you? Reply and tell me: has AI affected your creative work yet?