[newer_vienna]

Sure, I see your point. I too read and value technical manuals, but I think them worth reading because the underlying scientific truth or technology matters and the builders/maintainers were doing important work when they crafted the manuals.

Yes, I'd rather read the prompt than the output. The problem you bring up with journalists and bloggers is exactly why provocative content is not worth reading. Kierkegaard brings up this point exactly! One of his most famous quotes is precisely this, "The lowest depth to which people can sink before God is defined by the word 'journalist.'". The problem is exactly their motives and the distortion of truth.

[foxglacier]

I fully agree about provocative content. Well except that some people enjoy feeling angry by believing something that isn't true. That's a kind of pleasure that's worth something, but it seems emotionally harmful in the long run. God in these olden-days moral judgements usually means emotional health of the individual or vaguely defined long-term success of their society.

My point is that it's not AI-vs-human that matters. AI makes provocative content easier to write but it also makes helpful technical documentation easier to write.