Copywriters who lost work to AI tell their stories

17 December 2025

Brian Merchant has been collecting stories from copywriters who have lost their jobs to AI powered technologies, as part of a series, AI Killed My Job, that he has been compiling this year.

I’m a writer. I’ll always be a writer when it comes to my off-hours creative pursuits, and I hope to eventually write what I’d like to write full-time. But I had been writing and editing corporate content for various companies for about a decade until spring 2023, when I was laid off from the small marketing startup I had been working at for about six months, along with most of my coworkers.

This is a constant worry to me, as a part time copywriter. To date the company I work for has succeeded in convincing clients that people are better at writing copy than AI is.

But how long that stays the case remains to be seen.

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