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Sure, but that's a separate claim, and I guess to my mind I dunno if we'll know how it shakes out for a few years, since everyone's still figure it out.

It does seem like a problem that these tools depend on humans to create new information that they can regurgitate and that they’re creating the economic conditions that will make those people even rarer than they already are

Yeah, I see that as a problem if the models don't develop, and I think in particular the effects on journalism are very concerning.

The models can develop all they want to but *they can’t go out into the world and collect new information*.

LLMs are inherently backwards looking. Not even Amazon has solved the "we see you bought a toilet, here's a dozen more toilets you might like" problem in traditional ML models. Even if they were somehow collect new data, they'd only look where they already got data from