If it wasn't already an issue, AI companies wouldn't be destroying old books to guarantee they weren't training on AI slop...

The problem is if AI replaces writers, there will never be anything new to train AI on.

Humans haven't hit a wall on innovation, were just no longer in the massive boom from early internet.

Historically the only way to cause those booms is to connect humans together to facilitate the exchange of ideas and collaboration.

We're headed so fast to the opposite I don't know if tech bros are too overconfident to understand they were a product of their time and not the other way around, or if they're smart and selfish enough that they're intentionally trying to freeze human innovation so that there won't be another boom so no other group could clean up and replace them.