Not just that. An LLM is an universal middleman for anything creative. Books, code, music. Everything written, spoken or performed can be accessed as digested and mixed by the LLM. It breaks all content-relates business models by inserting a middleman, that seeks to capture as much value as possible while actively arguing the source of mediated content is not entitled to anything. This is not sustainable, as the content source will loose motivation, including non-monetary motivation. This in turn will stop the middleman being able to capture value created by them. But the ability to combine existing content without anything new being added is likely to be too little to offset the enormous costs involved. Whatever the outcome for the AI-bros, human content generation will decrease massively for a long while. Which has a massive detrimental effect on culture globally.
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