[gregjor]

LLMs may have the capacity to imitate creative and thoughtful pieces, in the sense that their output can fool readers into inferring creativity and thought because we (humans) have no other model: When we encounter writing that makes sense we automatically infer a conscious and intelligent author, because our minds have no alternative explanation.

That capacity to fool people with apparently meaningful and creative content may have some value in the market, but I think that value amounts to the same value the market assigns to what currently gets churned out by people working in "content production." Not zero, but not the same value we assign to actual creative writing.