Sure, but most authors aren't payed for their writing style, they are paid for what they say, for a unique insight, good research, or, if fictional, for a good

Sure, but most authors aren't payed for their writing style, they are paid for what they say, for a unique insight, good research, or, if fictional, for a good story arc and suspense. I haven't seen purely AI written pieces that have that. And I am not sure they will with the current approach, which produces mostly bland and generic text. We would need an AI that does some actual creative thinking first. I think (hope) that AI, in the interim, will provide actual authors ways to get inspired by its random nature. Like painters might start with an ink blob and then paint over it. Or let AI fill in some gaps, like description of people or places, etc.