Maybe some of it make for good reads, but I would rather stay with flesh and blood authors.

Understanding how to differentiate the two would help normal people in understanding how this tech works.

teachers as well, so some school systems have banned it or tried to.

OpenAI released ChatGPT and they know it's being used for cheating and fraud. They're trying to come up with something to detect it, but the detector they've produced so far is a miserable failure. OpenAI is also conflicted on this, since their initial free version of ChatGPT has two premium successors, better versions, priced at $20 and $42 a month. Lots of students and wannabe writers who don't want to do the work will think those are essential.

AI is hurting artists, too, maybe especially one fantasy illustrator whose name has been used around 100,000 times in prompts by people trying to copy his work. He found out months ago that a search for his name on Google turned up more crappy imitations than his own work. See https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/09/16/1059598/this-artist-is-dominating-ai-generated-art-and-hes-not-happy-about-it/ .

Google has developed a very sophisticated program to "create" music with all sorts of prompts, even paintings, that will trigger the AI to go through everything it's scraped or ripped off. But they haven't released it yet since they know damn well there are copyright problems.

And Meta released a science AI in November, trained on lots of science data and documents, that had to be withdrawn in three days since it produced authoritative sounding garbage, full of mistakes and imaginary references that sometimes used real scientists' names. It recommended eating crushed glass, for instance.

ChatGPT gets facts and references wrong, too. But with fiction, something that seems bizarre might be meant as surreal, or just an unusual style.

there are some patterns he's noticed:

http://neil-clarke.com/a-concerning-trend/

desperate for the gatekeepers to disgorge some cash.

The only reason Amazon exists at all is because the book publishers and retailers consolidated, price-gouged, made only a handful of authors absurdly rich, and churned out endless piles of garbage.

You do realize that the vast, vast majority of Stephen King's published books are decaying in landfills now, right?

I'd rather save the trees.