No, you got me
I guess the writing passionate people are just the core crowd I tend to see outside the tech forums on MR. And maybe I am one of those you reference. Once while traveling in India I thought I would write a story about someone who went through Mother Theresa's orphanages. It was going to be a story with a message and I really wanted well developed characters based on the children I observed there who were actually not well taken care of. Many continued on to work there in an understaffed position with low wages because where else were they going to to go? Visiting the orphanage and seeing the bad things was perspective changing, especially after seeing the pilgrims who put her on a pedestal... but writing was much more difficult and I haven't done much to maintain core skills since leaving school. I like to think that AI can help the common writer develop something of a boiler plate or at least maintain consistency, think through the stories they wish to create and hopefully give them room to expand in weak areas.
Like I said, I hoped that juxtaposed against the threat of mega corporations simply hiring writers to 'adjust' AI generated stories would create an interesting conversation. And really, I don't think Amazon would be afraid of using real people to pose as authors, with strict NDAs if they found success. Especially in more formulaic genres. I have never subscribed to Kindle Unlimited but I hear much of the content is low grade anyhow. How would we know if someone truly wrote something rather than a bot? Well I guess because such a team to QA the product would cost more than the poorly paid author mentioned earlier :P
It is all about the Turing Test. And now that it has been passed why not make novels with human QA? Better and more profitable would be world generation for video games and other things requiring that level of detailing. But back to the real authors- it is disappointing to see my favorite authors leave certain things less developed or contradictive when those things interest me in the story. And when I see something wrong it shatters the world until I choose to move on. Probably not important in the grand scheme but maybe parts of a story could be generated leaving the essential parts which make the story real and original to the author. That could be big. Maybe. I don't know. But if I relate this to personal assistants then localizing these technologies to empower individuals rather than feeding our soul into the cloud could make a huge difference in letting us make that choice and shape our own development.