A lot of the discourse surrounding AI in the writing sphere seems to focus on people whose ambition is to become a sort of digital James Patterson (or Edward Stratemeyer or Auguste Maquet, depending on their education level) with the LLMs as their ghost-writers. I’ve found the videos put out by this faction of AI-friendly writers somewhat helpful. But I am a writer who usually starts with a couple of lead characters and an endpoint and a starting point nailed down, maybe a few milestones in between dimly visible in the mist. The exhaustive outlining, character sheets, and editing recommended by this AI-friendly faction mostly looks, well, exhausting, even when the AI generates most of it, and the human just checks and polishes. In some cases, the outlines for this approach look more like a “zero draft” and involve a lot of human input, which is why I don’t think  it’s fair to level “you didn’t write that” complaints at this faction. 

My own process for the current WIPs goes something like this: dictate in mp3 format, have a local instance of whisper transcribe the result, take it to my free-tier Claude account to have the ai cleanup the result, add punctuation, and so forth. It helps to have prompting instructions that specifically ask the chatbot to maintain the writer’s voice. You can see the ones I use here.