[cthalupa]

> He made a new industry. He didn't cannibalize an existing one.

I don't see how you can claim the second part is true. Cars directly cannibalized other forms of self transportation.

[apercu]

? Cars don't "eat" horses. I wouldn't equate "making redundant" with "consuming"

[direwolf20]

LLMs don't literally eat artists. I think you understood the metaphor.

[cthalupa]

Cannibalizing a <product/industry/etc.> is a common phrase to describe the act of a new thing outcompeting an existing thing to another thing to the degree that it significantly harms the market share, sometimes to the point of figurative extinction. Redundancy is a very common reason for this to occur.

It has nothing to do with literally eating.