> Mark sent his client a copy of the Google Doc where he drafted the article, which included timestamps that demonstrated he wrote the document by hand. It wasn

> Mark sent his client a copy of the Google Doc where he drafted the article, which included timestamps that demonstrated he wrote the document by hand. It wasn’t enough. Mark’s relationship with the writing platform fell apart. He said losing the job cost him 90% of his income. The article is a little vague, but, assuming Mark is telling the truth, and the article is reporting reasonably, then I can think of a few possible explanations offhand... Client/employer could be an idiot and petty. This is a thing. Or they could just be culling the more expensive sources of content, and being a jerk in how they do it. (Maybe even as cover for... shifting to LLM content, but not wanting that exposed when a bunch of writers are let go, since unemployed writers can expose well on social media all day.) Or an individual there could be trying to hit metrics, such as reducing expenses, and being evil about it. Or an individual could be justifying an anti-cheat investment that they championed. Or an individual could've made a mistake in terminating the writer, and now that they know the writer has evidence of the mistake, is just covering it up. (This is the coverup-is-worse-than-the-crime behavior not-unusual in organizations, due to misalignment and sometimes also dumbness.)