A well-written TF story produced by a human is still far better than anything an AI can churn out. I'm impressed with this AI technology, but I've yet to read anything produced by an AI that really drew me in and immersed me in the story. A good AI-produced bit of TF erotica still looks kind of amateurish to me (though props on it being grammatically correct, I guess). Just to quote from that other thread (and to be clear, this isn't to slag on jwyattguy who provided the prompts - just demonstrating the limits of the AI):
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"I experienced a heightened libido, and I was able to have multiple orgasms in a matter of minutes. My body felt like it was on fire, and I was completely in the moment, completely present in my body."
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That is the "sexiest" part of the AI produced work, and it's boring. The reader still has to do most of the work to have any sort of reaction to that. It's like trying to get aroused by a Rorschach ink blot that kinda looks like a boob. At best, it can prompt you to create a scenario in your head, but you as the reader are still doing the heavy lifting.
Compare that to your own writing. You know how to build up to the TF, you know what sort of details are worth mentioning to your reader and what details can be left to the imagination, you know to call on several different senses in your description (eg. sight, sound, touch...), you have a sense of style that balances all that with the general flow of the story.
You're not competing against an AI. The AI sets a very low bar that any reasonably competent writer can surpass with ease, and you're a competent writer.
That said, it also sounds like you're looking for a reason not to write given the number of times you've announced you've quit. If you feel burnt out on writing, that's understandable. I've gone years between posting stories because the effort to enjoyment ratio feels a bit too high at times (that's effort compared to my own enjoyment of writing; that other people enjoy my writing is just a bonus but it doesn't factor into my decision to write). By all means, take a break; it's okay.
The trick is, you have to enjoy writing. If you enjoy writing, it doesn't matter what an AI is capable of. You write for yourself because you want to, and you share it with others because you want to.