[jdcasale]

Without weighing in on whether this is true, I'll point out that LLMs could both be better writers than most people and also be bad writers.

Writing is a difficult skill that many (most?) educational systems do not effectively teach. Most people are terrible writers.

[vidarh]

Yes, but for most uses that is irrelevant. Most of the complaints are not about them not being top-level writers, but that they stand out negatively from human writing by relying on a bunch of bad tropes and stereotypical language use.

Maybe we shouldn't use it to write novels if we can't push it well beyond average, but you don't need to get it to produce anything more than pretty much average or a little bit better for it to be good enough in competition with average humans.