> Fundamentally, I know that HN has plenty of people who will react with "ha-ha, human authors should pack their bags"

And yet they still seem to object to LLM-generated blog posts and LLM-generated comments here, where literary expectations are much lower.

The quality of LLM prose may improve quite a bit, but I suspect LLMs writing fiction will asymptote towards the quality of a writer who has never interacted with other people, but only read other fiction. Even if you dismiss any value of the author being a sapient being to the process, a human author has a far larger training set...