Yes, exactly. The comic was published on October 13, 2008, according to Explain XKCD, that’s probably why iTunes is in it.

Does this make a big difference? Even if you have the ability to download the books from the website, they are still DRM protected, no?

I agree there is a lot of marketing BS around LLMs right now. But I would argue that they are quite useful for e.g. basic language and coding tasks and at least for me these are real-world use cases too.

The headline is misleading. By “real-world use” they mean using ChatGPT and Claude for street navigation in New York. Which is one very specific use-case.