> Except, that's not realistic. When AI slop crowds out human-written books, human-written books are hard to find (I bet most people use Amazon to discover new books, and when they see 20 AI books to 1 human book, it makes human books much less discoverable.) And so humans end up losing money. This is not just theoretical; I know authors who have complained about this very phenomenon.

Most of us value good books. In my case printed books, not e-books. Right now I don't seek out novelty in books so I prefer rereading... I plan to rebuild my collection when I retire. Same with my music collection, gone after moving to another country 3 times. And let's not blame "AI" for killing music. Rock music was already dead before Spotify. I definitely see AI doing techno like Jim Morrison predicted.

> I disagree with that premise. AI is different for a number of reasons that I go into in depth here (for example: the fact that it's based on theft of human-created output.) I expect we'll never agree on that, though.

Once you realize it was inevitable that machines would eventually digest all human culture, you stop complaining about it. The hype will eventually subside and LLMs will be used where they make sense and life goes on.