• still want to read books made by humans.*

True. LLMs just regurgitate. Not just that, they have no point of view or inner life. I don't care what they think, in the way I might with James Joyce, Franz Kafka or Sylvia Plath.

That said, much of creative work is semi-automated already.

Is there really much true creativity in Hollywood superhero movies or TV soap operas? That kind of content seems like it could be largely done by AI.