Thesaurus: Sure, since you're looking up words but using your own brain to decide whether a word is appropriate or better. Caveat: some authors just throw in words to look smart. Concordedly.

Translator: Only if it's not creative writing and only if the output doesn't need to be accurate / there is margin for error.

Granted, the line is hard to place - see also the other post about where the line for adult content should be. But the thing is, when writing is AI generated, how can you know for sure that all the output was actually read and verified by the author? And text is not that important, but what about code?

The other argument: if an author didn't take the time and effort to write something, why should I take the time and effort to read and understand it? This applies to poorly written content as well. Ironically, a lot of people will already feed this article (and this comment) into an LLM to summarize it, if not to help them form an opinion about it. Summarizing isn't new though, there were tools some years ago to summarize webpages already.