Is High School English as we know it over?

I woke up this morning to read a news headline titled "The End of High School English". It seems there is a new AI trending called ChatGPT that works in a similar fashion to the artistic AI generators that have become popular recently. Instead of generating visual works however, this software generates writing. According to the article:

The arrival of OpenAI’s ChatGPT, a program that generates sophisticated text in response to any prompt you can imagine, may signal the end of writing assignments altogether—and maybe even i I the end of writing as a gatekeeper, a metric for intelligence, a teachable skill.

Is this hyperbole or a real indication of changing times? There are ripples waving through education industries on what this may mean for the future of English writing. This is more than computerized help with basic functions like that of autocorrect for spelling. The AI generates sophisticated ideas that display nuances of thought and logical connections between concepts. This is what is truly remarkable about this new technology. Will we have to credit the AI as writer or co-writer if we did nothing more than enter simple prompts? As in mentioned by the English teacher in the article:

Is this moment more like the invention of the calculator, saving me from the tedium of long division, or more like the invention of the player piano, robbing us of what can be communicated only through human emotion?

In my experience teaching I have noticed a dire need for writing skills to be explicitly taught. Writing after all is about more than sentence structure or grammar, but is the fundamental process of thought made concrete and developed for expression. If we have computers take over this aspect of thinking and communication, will that free us or limit us? Such questions remain to be answered.