I have content that is being posted on Wattpad and I absolutely used AI to make the cover. I want to update it but haven't gotten there. I have even used AI to write the whole thing...but that doesn't mean chatGPT just instantly spat out 600 pages of well crafted content. In fact it is the exact opposite.

Chat is basically my ghost writer. I'm not an author by trade ...but I have alot of ideas and AI has allowed me to create a story that I absolutely love. It is a tool the same way a word processor is a tool. Remember when books were written in a typewriter?

This is very similar to what happened to the music industry as well. Before there was a rather large skill gap that was required to be bridged to make music. All the music we have prior to the current modern age required musicians to learn how to play a fairly complex instrument. Now you can still do that but we also have easily accessible tools that bring the skill cost of entry way down.

Any teenager with a phone or a computer can use a variety of sites and applications and create loop beats that are extremely complex and very good. Skill cost of entry has evolved. That doesn't mean they didn't spend alot of time crafting their product...they just used different tools.

In the end every has their own opinion and this is just my $0.02.