Is it? What is another example of a technological leap that made a certain class of workers redundant while also continually relying on the output of these same workers to be feasible in the first place?
The current batch of LLMs is in the same class of technological revolutions as Napster and The Pirate Bay. Immensely impactful, sure, but mostly because of theft of value from elsewhere.
New data can still be created using AI and curation, couldn't it? New works, incorporating AI or not, still enjoy copyright protections that one can monetize by selling access to that specific work.
The current batch of LLMs is in the same class of technological revolutions as Napster and The Pirate Bay. Immensely impactful, sure, but mostly because of theft of value from elsewhere.