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Someone still wrote the prompts, perhaps iteratively until they got results which pleased them enough to save and share with others. Other tools allow modifying the results by coarsely sketching where you want semantic changes. You could have a dialogue with the AI criticizing whatever you did or didn’t like about the current draft, and what changes you wanted to explore.

If someone made a comic book with these kinds of tools, I’d score it as a win for enabling personal creative expression.

When writing was invented, I suppose one could have feared the loss of natural human bilateral aspect of communication. Writing detaches the writer from what is natively a direct interaction between people, and allows us to “speak into a shell,” so to speak.