> it's just about the getting the knowledge out there that's motivating the creator
In that case the creator should welcome AIs with open arms; a human reader will forget eventually, but the AI will preserve the knowledge forever.
"the AI will preserve the knowledge forever"
no, only some mangled form of it
AI will mutate the knowledge and eventually produce some mangled version of it, mixed in with ramblings from a random reddit post and half a paragraph from a copyrighted book that its fascist creators stole.