People ask if AI will replace a writer's voice.
I don't think that's the real question.
I've come to believe our voice is something we're continually discovering.
Every time you write, you find the language for something you didn't fully understand until you put it into words.
When you respond to someone else's writing, new connections are made, not just to the person, but to the ideas their words awaken in you. Those ideas become part of you. They influence what you notice, how you think, and eventually, how you write.
AI can generate words, but it doesn't experience the art of discovery. It doesn't become more itself through the act of writing.
Perhaps that's why presence matters so much.
Only through presence can your voice become truly your own.