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I have also thought about this a lot but have less developed views on fiction (short version: I don't currently want to read an LLM-written novel, but I expect that will change in the future and there will be some I enjoy)

But I want to say that non-fiction books are a lot more resistant to LLMs than you might think. I'm reading two non-fiction books currently. And both (https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/17801.Underground, https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/44824581-a-k-pop-live) could not have been written by an LLM. One is based on in-person interviews that were hard to set up, and the is based on a log of sources a number of which are going to live events.

Not every book fits this pattern of course. But even a more straight forward book (https://www.goodreads.com/series/139929-designers-dragons) will often rely on sources that are not easily accessed by an LLM, they may not be digitized, or they may not be accessible in your common digital collections.

I 100% think LLMs can do good synthesis work, don't really think we have the tooling/checking in place for them to write a competent non-fiction book yet, but that will certainly happen, but I still think the best and most interesting non-fiction remains firmly in the realm of humans.

(Also, a lot of non-fiction is memoirs, travelogues, etc. which LLM can't really replace unless you're dictating to it.)