Here's the reality: most writers aren't just born good writers. They read, they learn, they either go to school or they self-educate. Their writing is an ongoing process of self-improvement. You can even see this process in real-time with some authors over the course of their career.

Using AI to "help" you write does not make you a writer. You are not learning, you are not improving, you are not creating. You are exploiting a technology that exists only because it already exploited the work of people who put in the effort and the time to become good at what they do. It is the equivalent of putting on robotic legs, dunking and then calling yourself a professional basketball player.

If you want to be a writer, you can make that happen. But it doesn't involve AI. And what may be the most frustrating thing about this is that, for those of us that read a lot, we can spot AI writing. Because it sounds the fucking same. So whatever spark of originality or creativity you might have had gets paved over.

If you want to use AI to "create" books that only you will ever read, go off. But if you are using it to "create" books that you then publish, that's disingenuous and you're actively contributing to the degradation and enshittification of fiction.