This is like saying that phones can play songs, so maybe we should stop learning how to play musical instruments. The robots can write shitty essays because th

This is like saying that phones can play songs, so maybe we should stop learning how to play musical instruments. The robots can write shitty essays because they were trained on billions of other people's sentences. They can regurgitate human effort, not replace it entirely. And we don't write essays so that the world is full of essays. We write them so that we understand and consider new concepts.