The era of curatorial marketing is coming: When AI can write faster than you, taste is your last moat
*▲ When AI pushes production efficiency to the extreme, tastes and opinions will come to the surface and become the real scarce assets of the brand. *
This article was originally published in “Economic Daily” and is a revised version authorized for publication.
The public’s response to information has shifted from novelty to defensiveness
In the era of information explosion, what consumers feel most tired is not the lack of information, but the difficulty of making choices. When every news and every report may be the product of precise calculations by algorithms, the public’s response to information will shift from initial novelty to defensiveness. If brands still only produce similar information over and over again, they will eventually be drowned in endless information ruins.
Having said that, this is why curatorial marketing will become a core trend in the future.
Marketers must transform from content factories to digital navigators
The concept of curation originated in the art world. An excellent curator can rely on his profound professional background and aesthetic intuition to select objects of contemporary significance from a vast array of works, and give them a new soul through unique arrangements and combinations. In the future, marketers will play a similar role. We are no longer a content production factory, but a digital navigator for the audience, transforming fragmented information into a meaningful knowledge structure through filtering, filtering and interpretation.
This is also the true experience I have accumulated from my long-term operation of the two content sites “content.tw” and “vista.tw”: The place where readers really want to stay is never the place with the most information, but the place where someone has made the choice for them.
Why does taste become the end point of competition at this moment?
This starts with the limitations of AI. Even though it has far surpassed humans in data processing and logical deduction, it still cannot get rid of its underlying statistical characteristics. AI is good at dealing with the greatest common denominator. It can tell you what kind of text is most in line with the average public aesthetic, but it cannot tell you what kind of views can touch a specific life experience. AI pursues probabilistic accuracy, while curation pursues persistence of values.
When the market is filled with correct but mediocre content generated by machines, curators who have distinct opinions and dare to display subjective aesthetic standards will stand out.
The reason why audiences are willing to follow a specific personal brand or follow a certain platform is because they believe that the content filtered by this curator must have a certain depth and vision. This trust relationship based on long-term accumulation of taste is a digital asset that is difficult to simulate or replace by any algorithm.
Transforming from a creator to a curator requires a set of systematic thinking
However, making the transition from creator to curator requires a systemic shift in thinking. It’s not just about sharing links or excerpts, but a contextualization process. Excellent curation requires placing scattered information into a larger framework to help readers connect old perceptions and emerging phenomena.
For example, when you share an opinion about future technology, you must interpret it through your own life experience and tell the reader why this technology is relevant to him? And, what does this represent in terms of larger industry trends? This kind of insight with a humanistic touch is the most competitive part of curating.
Authenticity is rarer than neutrality
Additionally, the rise of curated marketing reflects consumers’ desire for authenticity. In a digital age where facts can be easily fabricated and emotions can be simulated, people’s demands for neutrality or objectivity are gradually turning to the pursuit of stance and individuality. When a curator demonstrates his preference, his persistence, or even criticism of certain mediocre trends, he is actually establishing a real connection. In other words, readers follow a flesh-and-blood person rather than a perfect database.
This is also the reason why I have increasingly tended to write in the first person and with a point of view in the “vista.st” e-newsletter in recent years. What readers want is not a carrier of information, but a companion with a stand.
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The real turning point lies not in writing faster, but in better judgment.
If your company is still obsessed with figuring out how to use AI to write more content, it may be getting harder and harder. The real turning point lies in how to hone your judgment and establish a unique system of meaning. This requires long-term reading, thinking and practice to settle down and define what is the real value?
To put it another way, AI can help you push your productivity to the limit, but it cannot decide for you which topics are worth writing about, which opinions are worth adhering to, and which readers are worthy of long-term management. These choices must ultimately be made by a person with taste.
Curatorial marketing is a battle to defend meaning
In summary, curatorial marketing is a battle to defend meaning. It requires marketers to shift from blind expansion to precise convergence, learn to abandon mediocre exposure, and instead focus on digging out the pearls hidden behind the noise.
When the torrent of content drowns everything, those curators who can lead the public to the heights of knowledge will gain more respect and favor. For friends who are running a one-person company or personal brand, this is both pressure and a gift: the pressure is that taste cannot be outsourced, and the gift is that once taste is accumulated, no one can take it away easily.
Starting from today, try to ask less “What more can I write” and more “What do I want to leave for my readers in this flood of content?” When this problem begins to linger in your work for a long time, you are already quietly on the road to transforming from a content creator to a curator.
