There is a huge differentiating factor for LLMs that makes it not normal: the blatant disregard for the ownership rights of everyone in the world. What other "normal" technology has so callously stolen everything it can without consequence?
The music industry? Artists getting inspired and too closely imitating other artists? I genuinely want to know. And if there is such a suitable example, how did society react? Is there relevant history we can learn from here?
Putting aside other the other problems (capital ownership class salivating at the prospect of using LLM bots instead of humans, reduced critical thinking and traditional learning, environmental impact, other societal changes), this is my main turn-off for LLMs.
Give me a model trained on a responsible dataset (not something our grandparents would scold us for doing) and that I can on consumer hardware then I can use LLMs guilt free.