Comment by capnrefsmmat

Sure, you could learn about grammar, plot structure, narrative style, etc. and become a reasonable novel critic. But imagine a novice who wants to learn to do this and has access to LLMs to answer any question about plots and style that they want. What should they do to become a good LLM-assisted author?

The answer to that question is very different from how to become an author before LLMs, and I'm not actually sure what the answer is. It's not "write lots of stories and get feedback", the conventional approach, but something new. And I doubt it's "have an LLM generate lots of stories for you", since you need more than that to develop the skill of understanding plot structures and making improvements.

So the point remains that there is a step of learning that we no longer know how to do.