It would demonstrate basic reasoning skills that weren't things one would "reproduce, mix and match text from an enormous corpus". Like the response you provided, which is meaningless word salad. It's a prima facie takedown of your post.

This is like people who hate poetry, insisting their bad poetry is good poetry. Why? Because who else is to say otherwise! Well, the good poets. The people that appreciate poetry will know the difference. Everyone else wont care, save for those invested in having to sell their bad poetry as good.