The author argues that when generating text becomes cheap, people get more drawn to the "live speech" format, which kind of revives the old oral tradition, such as how Odyssey was passed orally before becoming a book. In his opinion, written word was the king for the last centuries, but now the times they are a-changing.

I don't completely agree with that (isn't the success of Nolan's Odyssey adaptation exactly the triumph of fixed "written" media?) But that post got me thinking and it has interesting perspective, so I decided it's a good fit for posting here.

Oh, and the author is an ML researcher working on not-so-large language models.