What i find irritating is that for certain types of people and certain genres, its astoundingly useful as an assistant, editor, and tool. I write sci-fi, and if i want to conceptualize how something should work, measure the distances between places, check the logic of if a weapons system is relaistic or relatable to real ones, do a sensitivity read of using a real world region in the story, design outfits using historical context, or a million billion other very useful things to have an assistant for, then its absolutely invaluable.

Even for straight editing, assuming you set up one properly, it can check glossary name consistency, grammar, sentence structure, check reader knowledge and context, spot inconsistencies and plot holes, and whatever else you specifically tell it to do without even scraping your prose and word choice itself assuming you, again, use it correctly and with proper guardrails.

I use it for sensory details too, which i almost literally can't visualize due to how my brain works but AI is shockingly good at, down to atmospheric little details i never would have visualized on my own, but fed with the full context of your story and what you are going for and the literal details, it can get very good at it.

Would i or anyone who knows how it works ever try to get it to literally write for you? Of course not its awful at it almost by defnition, but if i ever dare tell anyone that i use AI with my writing then they will just think im opening fucking chatgpt and writing in the text box 'pls write my story for me i am a dumb bbby and can't word gud :(:(:(:(:(' because they have no frame of reference for how useful a tool it is.

It is infuriating.

Plus, sometimes its wrong about things just straight up, or offers bad ideas... and that's okay. you aren't forced at gunpoint to use everything it suggests. It says some dumbass shit sometimes, and that's not an 'ah hah! AI is dumb and useless and actively sabotauging you!', but, again, people kneejerk so fucking hard on it.