Inbefore anyone says 'but the book doesn't produce text', true, but the printing press did. I see very little difference between llms and printing presses: they both reproduce the words of others, the main difference is speed and scale. The pain you think you recognize in the output of an llm is real: it's real pain experienced by real people, probably hundreds or maybe thousands of people writing about their pain, mashed up and reprinted to suit you.