Matthew Kirschenbaum, a Commonwealth Professor of Artificial Intelligence and English at the University of Virginia, warned of what will happen if the “great virtue of the book”—its existence as a self-contained object, with a human writer, and a human history—is dissolved into data that siphons all context from the original. The boundaries of the book (e.g., its covers and materiality, publication information, and author) disappear when the text is “homogenized” and “loses all of its relationships that were present in the original book.” Thus, the very thing protecting A.I. from copyright infringement—its ability to rephrase things—is also the problem: L.L.M.s transform literature into some hybridized, half-dead thing that is far removed, if not completely untethered, from its original source. It creates a product so drastically new that the text as an individual work is effectively destroyed. This less obvious form of erasure is much more hazardous and worrisome than destructive scanning.

Old man Heidegger explains it best. He had a concept of Gestell which means putting things in order, into systems, catalogs of resources - it renders humans into essentially a stock (Heidegger's term is Bestand).

Basically - a river is a source of water pressure to drive turbines at the hydroplant. The thing with Gestell (which Adorno and Horkheimer also described as Standardization and Rationalization) is that it pushes out anything deemed inefficient or superfluous - everything should be an asset, a resource. On an ontological level it presents a threat as it limits human capacity for thinking in any other way.

LLM doing the blandest possible generative output is basically this through a lens of Adorno's culture industry.