People who make the argument that AI users contributed minimally to the output have never tried to create content using AI that is anywhere near publication ready.

Two scenarios:

1. minimal input and it's pretty obvious that it's AI generated, and really not that good either.
2. keep working with it, adjusting prompts, stitching pieces together for flow and maybe having AI redo sections that need more work to be decent quality.

Anybody that is able to pass content as their own without it being obvious that it was AI-generated put a lot more work into it than most of the human-created content on Hive receives.

I've tried to use AI to create content because I don't actually enjoy writing that much. But I have standards, and creating content I would sign my name to is harder with AI than it is to just write it myself.