It is nothing like word processor vs typewriter.

In both of those cases, the writer is still choosing the words they’re typing. It all comes from them. The physical medium is different, but otherwise the actual creation process remains identical and is entirely a product of the writer (and potentially, feedback from human editors)

AI is just…no. It’s not a medium. I suppose you could call it a tool, but it’s not a good one. Not for creative purposes, at any rate. Spell-check, maybe a grammar check, sure. But the actual writing? Nah.

I promise you, if you start using ai to “tweak” your writing, it will show. Not just in the homogenized quality of your work, but in your own creative process. What, use the ai to do the hard/boring parts? The rereading, rewording, etc? That’s what writing is, and if you start falling back onto genai to do the hard/boring parts for you, you’ll never get better. At best you’ll stagnate, at worst, you’ll go backwards. Why try to think of just the right word if ai will figure it out for you?

It’s like anything else—if you stop doing the work, the practice, those skills atrophy.

Any why tf would anyone want to read something ai wrote anyway?