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This seems way to stem biased imho. Interacting with chatgpt isn't really a technical skill. And editing prose certainly isn't. I think writers, especially creative writers would be way ahead on prompts (basically an outline) and massaging the output into one more cohesive whole. Good writers can probably also discriminate between powerful prose and overblown pompous language that GPT can output sometimes.
The other thing is I would hope that good writers would never have a filler chapter. I don't like needlessly padded content of any type, and if I notice that my ranking of the content goes down.
Having played with ChatGPT as a writer, I agree. It takes some learning to shape prompts. It might eventually be good for churning out first-draft-level writing more rapidly by fleshing out those sections where you usually head off to a search engine or just want to add some 'scaffolding' such as a location description you know won't make it to the final book, but which lets you more clearly imagine the space.
It's incredibly limited though, once you start to really get familiar with it!