The main difference is that the click economy did not rely on printed books and magasines' continued existence. It could produce its own original information. A

The main difference is that the click economy did not rely on printed books and magasines' continued existence. It could produce its own original information. A magasine author could become a blogger, and they could still write their own café reviews. Generative AI still relies on the work of the creators whose livelihood it threatens for its training data. It still relies on someone else experiencing the real world, and describing it for them. It just denies them their audience or the fruit of their labour. Someone here put it nicely: AI companies are eating their seed corn.