Why should I spend time writing something myself when I can just describe the idea to an AI and it will write something almost as good in seconds that I would have spent the whole evening on?
Because it won't write something almost as good; it won't write anything even approaching good. It can't. What it can write is 18 seasons of filler, and it will be like seeing a repeating texture - glaringly obvious. I said nobody could tell it apart and that's patently untrue, AI writing is easy to see for what it is after not very long at all. Your writing is an entirely different beast, it's a message from you into the brains of your readers.
You can use AI to get over writer's block, you can use it to translate and for advice on grammar and spelling. It can't write your stories. Try it - the advice is that writers should write for themselves first. So try to make it tell a story you want to read; I think you'll find yourself mentally correcting it and thinking things like "it would be better for this to happen", "that person should say this instead", "that character wouldn't react like that", and so on. The writer in you has opinions and you'll hear them as you read.
Don't let the tool discourage you. It's just a tool; without you it can't do anything at all.
Tips are a good idea on paper but in practice they are unfair, to workers as well as patrons. Don't defend tipping, don't attack companies that try to buck the trend. Getting rid of tipping is a great thing that the US as a whole should move towards. It will involve paying servers a fair wage, and that's okay.