I always feared to pick up a pen because I looked at Borges, Tolkien, and such. Their talent and works of art were things I felt I could NEVER achieve.

Then ai fiction started to spread and now I feel like its my obligation to produce original works, lest the world be consumed by slop.

Even before AI could write them, more slop books written by humans were added to Amazon each day than a human being could possibly read before the next day (probably by a few orders of magnitude at least).

Don't just create original works for the sake of creating more original works -- there are plenty of them already. You should write if you have something to say.