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I don't think so.

A lot of things dubbed AI are in fact what people in the know call Machine Learning (ML), which is different - AI includes ML as a subset, so if something is actually ML it isn't AI. Subtle but important.

Both AI and ML can be 'not smart', yet eventually learn to write stories as well as your favourite author. It just takes time and a lot of (input) samples and someone telling them whether each sample is a hit or miss - that's how the software 'learns'. At first it will likely learn sentence, paragraph then story structures, and eventually learn how to tweak a reader's emotions properly.

Will that then be the end of human authors? I think there will always be a place for them, and besides, software is still a long way off from being able to write a novel - check out the "AI written" novels on Amazon, there are some humans on there claiming they wrote the novels but reading them reveals the disjointed attempts by software.