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Is it for himself? Or for Frog? Either way an ominous turn...

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Thanks for setting this up! A 9/10 for me. I work with LLMs and literature, so I've learned some obvious tells. Limited diction, that preening, adolescent tone. LLMs just trying too hard to be "one with it all." The LLM poem in the style of Butler threw me off.

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Maybe you were thinking of Jordan Pruett? He was in English at Chicago and is now a data scientist at Lyssn, which does AI tools development for the health industry.

Vernon Lee's "The Handling of Words" and Edith Rickert's "New Methods for the Study of Literature" offer some other great examples from the 1920s of early quantitative thinking about literature. The latter is discussed in Rachel Buurma and Laura Heffernan's "The Teaching Archive"

Can't recommend it enough! She wonders at one point if the black-boxedness of algorithms will throw us into a "New Dark Age," where we must accept algorithmic decisions like "Job accepting his punishment." It's tongue-in-cheek, but she's great at channeling the religious overtones of the discourse.