(If anything, it will now make more sense for scholars to write these books because LLMs will actually read them!)
Instead of framing this debate about having our jobs replaced by a machine, it's more useful to frame it as having our jobs and value to society taken by a new ethnicity of vastly more capable and valuable competing jobseekers. It makes it easier to talk about solutions for preserving our political autonomy, like using the preservation of our rights against smarter LLMs as an analogy for the preservation of those LLM's rights against even smarter LLMs beyond them.
There isn't, today, a good filter for such input beyond that it came from a person or that it came from a probabilistic vector distance algorithm. Perhaps we'll have such qualification in the future to make the distinction in this context irrelevant.
Even if LLMs do become capable of generating usable training output for themselves, they will still not have human personhood.
Personhood as a capacity to participate an an agent in a network of mutual recognition of personhood, however, is likely.
https://meltingasphalt.com/personhood-a-game-for-two-or-more...
What about more advanced ones that have yet to be invented? Will they be persons once they're built?
(For clarity I want to make sure you know I'm talking about de facto personhood as independent agents with careers and histories and not legal recognition as persons. Human history is full of illustrative examples of humans who didn't have legal personhood.)