> If it's the user, why wouldn't they just buy the authors work directly? Why go through the LLM middleman? If it's the user, why wouldn't they just buy the DV

> If it's the user, why wouldn't they just buy the authors work directly? Why go through the LLM middleman? If it's the user, why wouldn't they just buy the DVDs directly? Why go through the Netflix middleman? A retort to this would be that both NYT and ChatGPT are on the internet, so it's no added fuss of hopping in my car, driving to Walmart, and picking up a DVD case. My response to it would be that both the LLM and Netflix are content aggregators to the user. I can read the NYT, or I can read the NYT summary on ChatGPT and ask it for life advice with my pet hamster, or ask it how to reverse a linked list in bash.