I forgot to address this point– I don’t think Jevons paradox applies here. We’re not rendering more efficient utilization of a fungible resource. Again, it’s not a genuine substitute, it’s a forgery taking the place of the genuine article. It’s making the genuine article harder to find and harder to use. It destroys the incentives for creating the genuine article in the first place. That’s partly why these things, if left unchecked, will cause what I call “Total Skill Collapse“ – over decades, LLMs destroy the economics that created the experts in a particular field. People stop entering that field, eventually no one in the workforce really possesses those skills anymore. This subsequently starves LLMs of training data, and people capable of discerning if the LLM output is good or bad. Eventually, we have no humans capable of the skill and no LLM. Humanity as a whole loses an entire skillset developed over centuries and destroyed in decades.