When I was in school, I had the mindset that I wasn't going to discover new insights about very common historical events or writings. I was given a topic like "write a 50 page paper describing the impact of Teutoburg Forest on Roman politics" and rather than try for new insight, I searched the web and found a couple dozen sources. I copy pasted those sources and fragments into a giant word document. I then organized them into what would roughly make sense in terms of timeline and insights. Lastly, I went through and paraphrased every single sentence from start to finish and added in an introductory and conclusion/summary paragraph. The end result was 100% unique (as measured by computer plagiarism software) and netted me an A+. The professor was dumfounded as to how I came up with a 100% original 50 page paper on such a common topic.

Having ML write your paper is obviously cheating but isn't too far from what I did mentally. I think the valuable thing being lost is the ability to research a topic, quickly understand what's relevant, and structure the results.