Fascinating dissection. I agree with each of your analyses, but I’m also a little more impressed with ChatGPT than I thought I’d be lol. I’ve read stories written by humans just as vacant of meaning and emotional intelligence but filled with details and sturdy plot that keep me reading despite my distaste. I read a commentary on AI recently that felt the problem wasn’t that AI would eventually get so good it could replace authors but that it was good enough that readers and publishers would be satisfied and make enough money that they wouldn’t care.