because that's a lazy dismissive take on LLM usage. If you drive someone to airport, do you just say your cat have them a ride and say you had no part in it? Or do you just say you gave them a ride because of the time and effort it still took you, even though you didn't pick them up and throw them over your shoulder? Would you ride a self-driving Waymo car to the airport?
The problem with LLM generated writing is that, apart from a couple of tells, which high school and college students have figured out how to ask ChatGPT to use diction that befitting a highschool student, to avoid tells like "delve", that you can't reliably detect when something is basically entirely LLM generated vs half human and half LLM generated, vs entirely LLM generated. And if you can't actually tell that it's been generated, that you're instead trying to look for tells that it comes from an LLM instead of the content or the message itself, then whybare you even reading it?
If instead of setting it up to run entirely on its own, as this post did, you give it a scenario, writing a fiction book with ChatGPT is a fun way to spend a bit of time that's (imo) better than doom scrolling for the same amount of time. Give it a scenario and some theme and tell it you want to write a book about it, and have it ask you questions on where the book should go and then make a book that goes how you want. Want a utopian pollyanna view of the future? what a nitty gritty future that makes skynet look like paradise? Want aliens to visit? Want ChatGPT to give you an act three surprise that isn't a trope you expected? Whatever you want, it's just fun to play with (unless you just hate LLMs and can't have fun).
The question is, what do you do with this book that's now been written. If you had fun by yourself and don't share with anybody, was fun still had? If you only share the book with your LLM adopting book writing club, and you all take turns doing analysis of each others books, knowing they were helped by an LLM, does it still "count"? And what if you submit it, or not, to a publisher who accepts it, you get it posted to Kindle Unlimited, and you get a lot of readers? What then?
The very nature of entertainment is changing, from mass media, to personal media. Culture was already fragmenting, AI will only serve to divide us further apart from one another. Between AI for writing and images, as well as video, along with AI like suno for music, the only challenge we need face is the problem of connecting with other people when there's no shared cultural references.
If you and I have both read an loved a book/enjoyed a song/joined a movie/tv show's fandom, there's a basis for continued conversation. But other than adversity like addiction or a trip into the desert/mountain/Serengeti, soon we'll have even less to connect with our fellow humans over.
(and yes, I know there are a lot words here. I wrote this all by hand and didn't have time to shorten it)