You can say that with randomly generated content, or simple heuristics+random based content, it's not specific from AI

I agree that the "AI as assistant" model is AI's sweet spot now and likely for the next few decades.

This model is already common now in systems like Tesla's badly-named "Full-Self Driving" Autopilot, which Tesla itself notes "is a hands-on driver assistance system that is intended to be used only with a fully attentive driver".

Similarly, "AI as creator" mostly leads to uninteresting outcomes. In contrast, "AI as creative assistant" will lead to actually-fascinating advances in the creative arts in the near future. AI will help creators think differently, and in turn, creators will weave good and/or interesting output into coherent, higher-quality pieces.

No, that‘s the way to get your paper published. Actually good AI systems produce convincing results without curation.

You can probably teach it to start producing higher gold/crap ratios with enough human planners training it?