> Why not give the masses the same writing skills as a first year university student?

Except this is not giving the masses the same writing skills as a first year university student. It’s giving them a centrally controlled service that generates text.

Depending on the context, this is an extremely important distinction.

I still think LLMs are useful, but I don’t think it’s fair to say they’re giving their users writing skills any more than running a chess AI is teaching a person to play chess.