With respect, that’s not how writing works. You don’t have fully formed thoughts and then put them into words; you form your thoughts fully by putting them into words. It’s called the writing “process” for a reason: the man who outsources it isn’t just letting a bot tell him what to say. He’s letting a bot tell him how to think. However rough-hewn the result might have been if he did it himself, it would have had the infinite advantage of being truly and entirely his. Everyone knows this instinctively. It’s why handwritten notes mean more than Hallmark cards.
For my money, this is the clearest and most present danger posed by AI as it actually exists: not that it might become sentient and rule the world, but that we are already forgetting, in a moony daze of tech hype, what a singularly precious thing it is that we are sentient.
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