Well, I’ve read paragraphs like this. I can’t truthfully say I’ve read the books because when the writing is like this — human or machine generated makes no difference — I stop reading.

It’s not engaging, it has no life-force, no pulse of though and emotion. It’s not a matter of great art or no art — it’s a matter of rhythm and cadence and the knowledge of a million works of fiction and all the tools. Now, that readers may not care about this — that I do not find hard to believe (and that was what made your short story so terrifying, in truth, Jack). That readers are happy with John did this and John did that and Sally did this…that I’m already seeing and have been seeing in poor writing for a lifetime. If readers are not discerning in their choices of entertainment, if they have no cares about the phrasing and the language and look only for the story to spur on their fantasies, then yes, writing will fall, it will be well within the realm of a computer to put together the “story”, cliched, hackneyed and dulled as it might be.

But how to program a machine with the emotions of every human being? How to program for stories to explore the human condition, not just the human state of physical being? :)