I'm glad for this post. I felt like i was taking crazy pills seeing so many people yelling "Ban all AI stuff. It's not real, it's just fake." Meanwhile i imediately noticed all the hallmarks of the industrial revolution. You can hate it but it is inevitable. I will say though, AI won't be good at doing writing and stories for quite awhile. AI ends up getting stuck in loops, it repeats things contantly, and still requires human imput for direction or even a way to start. It also goes pretty wild with assumptions.
Something people forget is AI does not have feelings, morals or ethics. AI by it's design is to please the user with whatever task it is given. This is why AI will hallucinate and just make shit up if you ask it a question. Becuase it wants to answer the question to a high quality but ends up lacking information or proof and examples, so it just fabricates it in an effort to please your request.
Forbs article of lawyer using chatGBT in court only for it to hallucinate case references: https://www.forbes.com/sites/mollybohannon/2023/06/08/lawyer-used-chatgpt-in-cou...
It's also why 'chatbots' have ended up responding to people talking about their depression and self delete thoughts with a "You should totally do that." Because you're saying you desire to self delete and the AI sees that as 'this is something you really want to do' so it gives replies encouraging it like "if it's what you want, do it. Follow your dreams."
Personally i'm enjoying some AI writing, specifically 'aidungeon' where it uses AI as a DnD style dungeon master. It is far FAR from perfect but watching a wold you create take life infront of you, but not just take life but take on its OWN life. There's just something really fun and satisfying about it.
It's very interesting seeing how AI deals with emotional situations. It seems to either give an overly emotional, even pleading, response or a more dark 'don't give a shit' response from the characters.