> So yeah, if you proofread and iterate on your AI's output until you feel you'd be proud if you had written it yourself, I'm happy to read it, too.

I agree, using LLMs is disproportionately frowned upon, but what matters is if you invested your own attention in the process. I use LLMs a lot for sparing, usually ask it to assume some opposing persona or use web search, not relying on its defaults.