When I used the word writing I meant literature. Of course ChatGPT will be useful for cranking out text where quantity matters more than quality. Corporate speak, PR, ad copy.
The problem there is not how good the writing will be, but how much worse things will get from a signal-noise ratio perspective!
The same way a Tesco chocolate custard doughnut and the artisanal one from my local market both exist.
It's not all Lord of the Rings or even Game of Thrones out there. We also have Harry Potter and Spot the Dog.
Sometimes you want dense detailed intricate plot AI can't do. Sometimes you want sparser text AI is excellent at.
(Recently there was a link posted on HN I can't find about the following).
Why does my commuter train announce "Please remember to take all your belongings before you leave the train". When "don't leave your stuff" will do?
Sometimes wordy is better. Why do we say "yesterday I went shopping" when "yesterday I go shops"?
It's a matter of distributing the information content through the sentence as much as possible.