The algorithm has turned against them...

[Luscious Atanari]

That's where ai shines—in the mediocrity spectrum. 

I mean, at some point someone will come along who is great—a great writer—who then uses ai in some kind of Pulitzer-winning level of creative genius, and here ai is utterly that writer's tool—nothing BUT a tool—and nothing resembling a crutch, and is used in a way that expresses the writer's prowess rather than buoying it.