Isn't the elephant in the room here that the stories that can be auto-generated don't have a creative component? They are just reporting some factual event or data. That is exactly analogous to robots that can assemble something on a factory line because all of the steps can be pre-programmed.

"Real" journalists are the ones that go through various facts and other tidbits and realize that there is a story that is deeper than just the facts. They research and tell that story so that the reader can understand it and appreciate why it is important or insightful. That is something that a 'robo-journalist' won't be able to do for a while.

For example, you can easily write a script to publish descriptions of the local high school football game every Friday night. But a robot doing that won't recognize when one of the team's members is exceptional, or how a team has changed its tactics to increase its ability to win games, or the impact of new facilities have had on the teams performance. Connecting those dots are still outside the realm of possible for these things.