Prompting and authorship

In English class back at school, a teacher would give you a “prompt” to write about.

And then you’d write about it.

The teacher wasn’t the author of your work.
The teacher simply motivated the work.

You authored the work.
And you became a better writer for it.

The world, currently, seems confused about the difference between the prompter, the author, and who becomes better for it.

The lines haven’t been redrawn, however much the big AI companies would like you to believe otherwise.