I have read thousands of books in my lifetime. I don't really have too many hobbies outside of reading. Trust me when I say there is an audience for literal crap. LLMs actually raise the bar significantly. I do not think they will ever exceed Hugo, or TS Eliot, or Borges, but they are far superior to the random author publishing random crap every single day.

Can the writer use AI to improve their output ... is the only outstanding question.

> It's literally an art.

So was making clothes, or shoes, or cabinets, or knives, or cooking, or so many other things. Now we mass produce all of them.