I don't buy it, although I agree with GP's larger point about other strengths.

Printing presses are about exact duplication of writing. The internet is a higher layer printing press. LLMs substitute for (some of) the human effort of producing the text that a printing press or the internet can then replicate.

> Huh that is an interesting metaphor. A next higher layer printing press?

A printing press that does the thinking for you.