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The only time ai is useful for writing is if you are the only one to read it. As a form of self entertainment, it's whatever. But as a tool to create? Worse than useless. It isn't even a good copy editor at this point; none of the models out there are good enough at that to be any better than doing it yourself.
If you really want to write, accept that you are going to suck. Everyone sucks at writing. Ideas? We can be great at that with no effort.
But writing is a craft. You don't just grab a brush, some paint, and expect to be Renoir a week later. You don't grab a hammer and saw and expect to have a nice piece of furniture a week later.
But people seem to think that writing is going to be different. Yeah, there's talent involved; inborn ability to process language in a useful way is a big asset. Having a genuinely creative mind where ideas just pop up all the time is a huge asset.
But they ain't shit without both practice and criticism. See, unlike more visual crafts, you can't have any success at self critique. Not that you should rely on that with painting or whatever either, but at least you can look and see if the end results match your vision in a glance. So to get better at the craft of writing, you need readers, and you have to be willing to listen to what they say, even if it turns out they're wrong.
Writing, real writing, is not learnt in a week, a month, a year. Even with all the natural talent possible, all the workshops and creative writing classes out there, your first finished story is going to suck at least a little. The craft of writing takes no less time to master than what it would take to become a black belt at a serious martial arts school. Years at a bare minimum.
My advice? Go over to !writingprompts@literatue.cafe
Every day, every single day, go back and respond to one prompt. Just one. And start as far back as it goes. If whoever posted responds, great. If not, spend the first week or so reviewing what you wrote and thinking about how to make it better.
If you respond to each and every prompt there, and by the end, you aren't able to be coherent at all, give up. But i suspect you'll reach coherency fairly fast as you go back and fix what you fucked up.
I'd also advise that you don't edit your responses. Rewrite each one as a fresh comment, so you can track what you're doing, and anyone interested can give feedback as you adjust.
Now, nor every prompt is going to spark an idea for you. That's what craft is for. That's how you learn craft: writing shit despite not being inspired. Wrangling words into order and sense is a skill. No better way to do that than writing shit that's boring as hell.