[bsenftner]

Yes, in the next few years the entire pop book industry is going to decimated. Just like the nearly gone magazine industry. However, what evolves to replace it is going to be very interesting. Humans are social animals, we're not going to stop communicating. Confusing prose? Will become a relic. Books that explain how to use some product or tool or adopt some behavior will become relics. LLMs will provide that learning resource. A hybrid LLM that tells a specific, intellectually challenging, Nobel quality narrative is what I hope is the result; it would be like talking to the survivor of an epic adventure, and you can both listen to the narrative as well as interrupt and ask questions. Likewise, new scientific theories would be published as an LLM that can explain at every level from Phd to 5 year old.