Why would any writer use AI?

Last weekend I was at a creative writing meeting, and AI came up. And, I know there are AI books over the internet, but I really fail to understand why anyone would do this. A copywriter using AI? Totally fine. Cheers for automating the toil you do to earn money. A creative writer? Is any of us really doing it for the money? There is no money in this market. Not now not ever. Since Gutenberg's press, as Umberto Eco says, book writing is nowhere profitable. Cultural industries exist on movies, series, music, games and so because there are money to be made. Publishing was the earliest organised cultural economic activity but never became a real industry because there is no money to be made. Publishing slop on Amazon don't get anyone rich. Wake up, pals.

And if we don't publish for money, AI just makes no sense. Why would I automate my identity expression, the works that define me, the thing I want to be proud about? Why would I automate the activity I feel great while doing and fulfilled when done? Using AI to do anything more than boring work, like grammar check is like paying someone to date your spouse. (Not kink shaming anyone).

Automation only makes sense for the things we do because we are coerced to. Automation exists to free us from the shackles of necessity. Never to take our place in things we want to do.