I know there are some writers who embrace the use of LLMs in their work, although generally not to actually create stories. I don't, myself, and have no plans to.
Rather than getting caught up in all the hype (on either side of the question), I prefer to think in practical terms. Do I have a reasonable use case for using AI?
In terms of telling my stories, no. AI cannot tell my stories the way I would and I'm pretty sure never will. And even if it could, where would be the fun in that? I like writing. Yes, it's work and takes time, but I'm not a "content" machine. When I write something, it comes from my own well of experience, knowledge, and belief. No LLM will ever encapsulate that unless it actually lives my life for me. Which it never will, no matter how closely it simulates the human brain. After all, there are already over 8 billion people in the world, all of whom have brains with the same general capacity as mine, and aside from myself, not a single one of them is me.
As for editing, no need. I'm not turning my creation over to a system that can't understand what I'm trying to do so it can edit my voice out of my stories. But moreover, I don't need to. I've become a fairly good self-editor, and the human editors I work with understand what I'm trying to do. (If they don't, I won't be working with them for long.)
In terms of writing emails, I seldom write an email that is okay with boilerplate. And when I do, I just create some boilerplate text myself. I would never insult my readers by sending a newsletter or responding to their emails with LLM-generated text. They want to interact with me, an author whose work they like and follow, not a piece of software that does not and cannot know a thing about them.
There is one small area in which I've discovered some utility for an AI assistant. The one now available through Adobe Acrobat does a good job of summarizing a document and answering questions about it. When writing a series, I've found it can be helpful (although a bit slow) to ask it questions about books I've previously published. For example, in my current work, I needed to know how old a character was when a certain event took place in their lives. The AI assistant came up with the correct answer and cited the passages used in determining it. It would have taken me a fair bit of effort to dig that out of the book myself.
Unfortunately, you don't get the Adobe AI assistant for free in the (otherwise free) Acrobat Reader. You only get a few free queries so you can try it, then it's locked down until you pay. At this time, I don't feel the benefit justifies the cost, and anyway, I can see where the dang thing might become a bit addictive, leading to me asking a lot of questions I don't really need answered, just to see how it responds. That's time I could better spend writing. So for now, I don't use it.
