Or these days? Maybe $4 of tokens on a frontier LLM.

and this could even be obfusicatively re-packaged as a video, or photo album

[edit] gadzooks i just realized, that the cat and mouse game ends with the death of document files, and evolution to a DRMable image or video form, served out y0u7ube style

Of course, then you will simply point a camera at a cheap smartphone and feed that to an LLM. The analog hole will not be patched until they can feed DRM content straight into our brains.

Remember: scifi can dream up of horrible dystopias (Black Mirror style) and real-world entrepreneurs will go "hey, that's a neat idea!".

There's a Philip Dick short story where ads are forcefully pushed into your brain (they kind of put that bit in the movie adaptation of "Minority Report", though it was another short story that had brain ads)... you can be sure that in the real world, if they could they would.

If there is a theoretical way to jam your brain to prevent it from seeing DRM'ed stuff, you bet they will make it real and close the analog loophole for good.

> theoretical way to jam your brain to prevent it from seeing DRM'ed stuff,

Maybe something for Neuralink?

Even then there's an analog hole at the neuron interface unless we just install decryption algorithms in the brain directly