Will Blogs Survive the Rise of AI?
A Letter from the Writer Who’s Still Here
Dear reader,
If you’re reading this, it means you’re still choosing people.
You scrolled past the auto-generated headlines. You bypassed the answers stacked like grocery shelves. You didn’t just want information…you wanted a voice. A touch. Something that felt alive.
So let’s start there.
Let’s begin with the quiet miracle that we’re even here…me, writing this, and you, reading it…across a sea of simulated sameness.
Because that’s what the internet is starting to feel like, isn’t it?
Same questions. Same answers.
Same glossed-up content, poured from the same machine.
And yet…we still write.
We still blog.
Why?
Because not all writing is about ranking.
Some writing is about remembering.
The Robots Came for Google
First, they came for the search engines.
AI tools that promise you’ll never need to Google again.
"Just ask," they say. "We’ll summarize the entire internet for you."
And people did ask. They still do.
But here’s what they found:
Quick answers, but no depth
Lists, but no longing
Facts, but no fingerprints
You can ask AI anything, and it will answer.
But it will not look you in the eyes.
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Because the machines are good…very good. But they are not you.
Why I Still Blog in the Age of Synthetics
I blog because I still believe in the tender authority of experience.
I blog because trauma still needs translation.
Because tomatoes still taste different in real dirt.
Because wine still carries the soul of soil, not spreadsheets.
Because people don’t just want to know…they want to feel known.
A blog isn’t just an article.
It’s a threshold.
It says: Come in. Sit down. Let me tell you something that mattered to me.
And AI can mimic that.
But it cannot mean it.
Google Is Changing, But So Are We
Will search look different in five years? Yes.
Will blogs rank lower on some pages? Probably.
Will AI try to answer every question before we even click? Absolutely.
But readers are changing, too.
They are:
Tired of empty calories
Starved for stories
Seeking out specific, messy, imperfectly human voices
They want to know what it’s like to:
Grieve while gardening
Taste a wine that reminds you of your mother
Try to grow a business from borrowed soil and borrowed time
That’s what you write. That’s what blogs like this offer.
And no AI can compete with lived truth.
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Because healing comes in flour dust and first drafts.
But What About SEO?
Here’s what I know:
Google will always shift.
Algorithms will always try to outsmart the heart.
But people still search for more than answers.
They search for connection.
And SEO, when done right, isn’t just about keywords. It’s about clarity.
It’s about meeting people where they are and gently guiding them somewhere deeper.
When your content:
Helps
Heals
Honors the question beneath the question
…then Google still notices.
More importantly, so do readers.
What Blogs Offer That AI Never Will
Context: Your blog doesn’t just answer…it frames
Personality: Your humor, your heartbreak, your word choice
Continuity: Readers come back because they know you (or feel like they do!)
Niche honesty: You’ve lived the wine, the trauma, the tomatoes (or at least, I have…you’ve lived a ton of other experiences unique to you!)
AI will get better.
But it will never get you.
Blogging as Resistance
Some days, hitting “publish” feels like planting a seed in asphalt.
But then a comment comes.
A saved pin.
A message: “I needed this today.”
That’s not an algorithm.
That’s a soul touching another soul.
I cherish every email I get from my readers.
In this era of artificial everything, a blog becomes a rebellion.
A return.
A whispered prayer that says:
I was here.
I felt this.
And maybe you did, too.
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Because writing, like walking barefoot on the earth, returns you to yourself.
I’m Still Here
I’ve thought about quitting.
There are easier ways to be seen.
Faster ways to go viral.
Quicker platforms, louder formats.
But blogs aren’t for the quick. They’re for the keepers.
They’re for the readers who sit still long enough to hear the heartbeat in the paragraph.
They’re for the writers who still believe the world can be softened, one sentence at a time.
So yes, the robots are rising.
But I am still writing.
And if you’re still reading,
then the blog isn’t dead.
It’s more alive than ever.
—
With grit, with grace, and with a whole lot of love,
Michele
