Are we losing the incentive to be creative? The "AI did it" assumption.

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the intersection of AI, copyright, and meritocracy, and honestly, it’s incredibly demotivating. Here is my point: whatever I code today, people are going to look at it and say, "It wasn't you, it was AI." The exact same problem is happening with any kind of text. If I spend hours pouring my soul into an amazing article, researching and crafting the perfect arguments, the immediate cynical reaction is, "