This is a remarkably magnanimous and even-tempered post. Most authors (e.g. Charlie Stross) really hate AI, feel personally affronted by it, and lose their cool when they talk about it.

I agree with Howey's sentiments. AI-written books aren't bad in themselves -- they're not ontologically bad -- but they tend to be, by their very nature, derivative. Narrative quality is, as yet, still quite poor. And self-publishing on Amazon.com is full of that stuff. (I've long since stopped buying self-published stuff on Amazon on account of low-quality content, and Amazon's review system seems severely broken.)

Humazon would be a welcome thing. Or even a "human written" flag for books on Amazon.