HARD disagree. Most people aren't exposed to unchampioned writing - even the shit on Amazon has someone believing in it. Any chump with a copy of the Foundation trilogy can churn out 80%-of-the-way-there garbage - what keeps most people from reading it is (1) it takes a while to write (2) it takes even longer to get it in front of you. If you've ever been in a writer's group you know that the people around you spent months or years making things as bad as what you're trying to be polite about. The stuff that people actually read has come through that forge refined. It's no longer 80% of the way there, it's 99-100% of the way there and it gets there through learning, experience and artistry. There's this idea that "hey, computers are 80% of the way there, they'll make the extra 20% in no time at all" that's been pervading these discussions since we were all forced to learn the words "trolley problem" and what has happened, universally, is that AI boosters have successfully lowered expectations. If I walk halfway to the wall every minute how long will it reach me to touch the wall? Yeah, sure, engineering approximations and all that but we aren't expecting AI to walk halfway to the wall. We're expecting it to walk twenty percent closer each time which, practically speaking, means that it's never going to get closer than 88.8% of the way there. there is nothing in the AI toolkit that crosses the asymptote. All that's happening is people are claiming that 88 is the new 100.The prose will improve over time.
Tell it to write in the voice of David Lindsay or Olaf Stapledon and you've already lifted it part of the way.