> all this talk will sound as dumb as stating "MS Word spell checker will replace writers" or "Photoshop will replace designers".

You cannot use just a spell checker to write a book (no matter how bad) or photoshop (non-AI) plugins to automatically create meaningful artwork, replacing human intervention.

Business people "up the ladder" are already threatening with reducing the workforce and firing people because they can (allegedly) be replaced by AI. No writer was ever threatened by a spellchecker.

Hollywood studio execs are putting pressure on writers, and now they can leverage AI as yet another tool against them.