If you’ve been online lately, you can feel it, the air’s charged.
Writers are nervous. Readers are suspicious.

And anyone using AI?

Suddenly, they’re the new witches on the internet.

We traded typewriters for laptops, candles for electricity, and now we have tools that think with us.
But somehow, curiosity turned into fear.

I get it. Writers pour years into their craft.
They bleed commas, cry over paragraphs, and build cathedrals from sentences.
I love them for it.

But humans have always built tools to make space for what matters.
Why should storytelling be any different?

Besides, creativity, imagination and storytelling aren't exclusive to anyone.

My grandmother, Mercedes, could turn an ordinary afternoon into a movie.
Her stories still live inside my heart, the sunlight trembling across the floor, mahogany trees dancing outside.
She never had YouTube, or time, or AI.
I wish she did.

Because AI doesn’t erase creativity — it preserves it.
It gives more people a voice, even those who never thought they had one.

So maybe, instead of burning the witches, we could ask how they learned to fly.

Confession: I use Grammarly and ProWritingAid.
I just found out they’re AI too. 😩
If that makes me a witch… please don’t burn me.
At least, not today.

Read the full story on Medium:
👉 The Witch Hunt for AI Writers: When Creativity Becomes a Crime