The anti-AI sentiment within the writing community is rabid. Many writers say that all AI writing is slop, and you should never use it. But I think that’s mostly denial and cope. LLMs are getting better by the day, and while I still mostly stand by this piece about the limits of ChatGPT at writing fiction, AI (Claude in particular) has gotten orders of magnitude better at writing fiction over the two and a half years since I wrote that—and it will only get better in the future. If you think AI cannot contribute to good writing, you’re not trying hard enough (or prompting well enough).