I realize this is a joke, but it is important to remember that Hollywood doesn't produce remakes because that is what writers want to write. It produces remakes because that is what studios want to make. Writers are probably the strongest force for injecting originality into the process.

The list of things AI could never do, that it has already done, is getting rather long for a statement like that to read as anything but naive.

Eventually, given enough investment, yes it could.

And yet, the studios came to the bargaining table instead of doing just that. Sounds like they don't have that much confidence in such a plan.