Even though ChatGPT has certain guardrails to prevent it from regurgitating copyright verbatim, additional chapters, or writing prequels, you can use workarounds such as asking for output in a similar style to [source material]. Sound familiar? Writers and artists have been influenced by other writers and artists for as long as there has been writing and artists. AI is just being made to be a boogeyman due to the innate fear of change and the unknown. If anyone should be using AI as just another tool in their tool-belt, it’s creative workers. It may just help you think of something you hadn’t already thought of and help organize and edit your work. Also, the way it’s looking generative AI illiteracy in the future, would be similar to being computer illiterate today. So, reject at your own peril.