Maybe I'm just being shortsighted, but I don't see that as a good comparison to this, since we read books for a deep exploration of an idea by the author, not j

Maybe I'm just being shortsighted, but I don't see that as a good comparison to this, since we read books for a deep exploration of an idea by the author, not just for the idea. It's not about the rareness, or physical quality of the binding. See e-books, even. The reality is that the LLM is not adding better analysis, it's just padding the length and fluffing. If the author was going to pad with LLM garble, he might as well have made a blog post and saved everyone the time. Of course that's less profitable...