I am reminded somewhat of the ride & delivery apps here. While they did use tech to enable some cool things like demand pricing and efficient route planning, a big part of their innovation really came from using that tech to shovel most of the risk and cost of providing the service onto independent contractors.
LLMs are a genuinely exciting technology, but I am worried that a part of what they enable will turn out to be a sort of "content laundering." If you train your AI on a bunch of someone elses work, you can make it produce something very simiilar. You can extract whole aspects of an artist or writer's style and replicate their ideas much more easily now, and because it is generated inside this black box you have a sort of deniability when it comes to accusations of copying.
LLMs are a genuinely exciting technology, but I am worried that a part of what they enable will turn out to be a sort of "content laundering." If you train your AI on a bunch of someone elses work, you can make it produce something very simiilar. You can extract whole aspects of an artist or writer's style and replicate their ideas much more easily now, and because it is generated inside this black box you have a sort of deniability when it comes to accusations of copying.