The mental gymnastics the parent poster went through to equate an LLM to the printing press in this sense are mind-boggling.

Ironically, I thought your parent commenter had to go through mental gymnastics to say that their parents analogy of the printing press isn't applicable to an LLM. Neither you nor your parent gave me any satisfactory reasons why they aren't similar, just your mental superiority as proof that oceanplexian must be wrong.

GPT and compilers are though.

Compilers don’t randomly fail to compile code that is too difficult for them to understand. Llvm makes sure that I never have to learn assembly, gpt doesn’t guarantee at all that I don’t have to learn to code.