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steal. They've already done studies showing that it dumbs people down. Most teachers hate it, and I don't know of any professional writers who don't hate it. And genAI has been used to flood self-publishing platforms with AI slop, often using titles and names similar to real authors'. It's been used to flood traditional markets with AI-generated crap, even forcing some editors to shut off submissions at times.

One of the first news stories I saw about genAI for writing, nearly three years ago, was about a woman using it for self-published fiction who'd discovered that the more she used it, the less her own subconscious offered her ideas.

But she should never have bern using AI in the first place, when it was trained on all that stolen work. It's a plagiarism machine, as one of spokepeople for WGAW - Writers Guild of America West, the screenwriters - called it, during their strike.