It’s another tool, and I hope it will drive writers to be more creative and push conventional plot structures. I think readers will learn to tell what reads as AI generated, even if it’s just a gut feeling, they’ll feel a piece of AI generated work is unsatisfying, much like now how we feel about a book printed with clip art and stock photos vs a set of cohesive illustrations commissioned for the work.

Corporate owned IPs such as Marvel and Stars Wars films are soulless perhaps for different reasons than AI but maybe the resulting works end-up with the same blandness through different processes. Creative collectives working together can still make amazing things, and AI could be part of those teams.

I’ve used ProWritingAid forever for grammar checking. It’s saying it’s AI powered now. I’ve learned a lot using it and it picks up my typos. I’ve used bing search for research and it’s fun, but I have better resources. The internet lost a lot of research potential when ad-driven algorithms and password protected social networks took over the mainstream internet and I don’t know if AI will be able to get us back to late 2000s and 2010s search potential or if it will make it even harder to find genuine human opinions and experience.