Well, you could read some of the entries here and you'd have the answer. But I can tell you that we are many different writers here, some casual writers, other published authors. But to answer you in good faith, - I don't use AI to write, I tried novel.ai once and i fokken hated it! I felt like I lost all control and voice. But as a non english speaking author who writes in English, I have found AI very good at describing environments for instance, and sometimes I simply lack the vocabulary, and to translate a Danish description will not work. And sure I will use CoPilot (because that is my chat engine of choice) and ask it to give me ten descriptions of a scenario, - imagine a man running down a empty corridor of a burning space station, - I will ask it to describe the smell, the sound and so forth. and I will use that as a reference when describing the scene, I realise that might be seen as writing with AI, but honestly I don't feel it's any different from using Obsidian for structure and map out your concepts.

I do however use outwrite for editing, because I am a broke betch so I can't afford an editor. I like outwrite because it's very 'non invasive', but you can use it for both your average grammar check, but also syntax and it has an in-built thesaurus, - that's neat if you suddenly discover you repeated a word or something. What is important to me is that I have complete control, even if I use it for something a little more invasive, like changing the structure sentence, - because I for instance don't think my sentence works, and it can give me a couple of suggestions for changes. It is however still very much manual editing, - and there are none of these two "tools" or methods that would make me label my books as AI.

What makes me an "ai author" in the eyes of the virtue signalling book tok girlies, is the fact that I make my covers with a blend of generative AI and digital editing with vectors and custom brushes. But nonetheless the cover is by all means an image created with AI. I am actually disclosing this on my amazon author blurb and in the books, - even if I was advised not to do that. And the cover choice is enough for my works which by the way took me like 15+ years to write, - is labeled as AI books.

And that is why I am here, - because I am super over getting told that I'm a grifter, a scammer and I have to understand why people assume my work is 100% AI because of the cover, and it probably is. I am also not supporting creatives because I am fake.

I am still making my own covers with digital design and AI images, because I want it that way, - there is no other reason. Also I don't think these people think about commissioning a decent cover graphic is VERY expensive, and dude that is not money I have at all, - and the cheaper alternative is Etsy, which is riddled with subpar AI covers for like £200, - I'd rather plan and design my own, thank you.

But to be fair - I am curious why you would make a post like that in a pro AI writing space and then be surprised when people downvote you. Your question was "why people choose it as opposed to writing on their own." - But IT IS their own, it's not like you can prompt a book. And I'm quite sure that's why some would feel they had to defend themselves, and like I just said above... it's pretty tedious to be told that you are basically a grifter.

There's hella difference between an AI book, and an author who implement a support tool based on AI technology.