That's entirely orthogonal to the issue it was addressing. The point is that it doesn't matter how close the two can become (indeed, we're already pretty much

That's entirely orthogonal to the issue it was addressing. The point is that it doesn't matter how close the two can become (indeed, we're already pretty much there); people will always want to read stuff written by actual people (or at least a thinking being) than something purely generated by a model with no other grounding in reality.