AI Can't Read Books. It's Reviewing Them Anyway

Now that we've all had experience with large language models, their limitations are all too visible. But their prose doesn't explode in the mind like the words of Jennifer Egan, Emily St. John Mandel, or David Foster Wallace do. Yes they can make music. But Taylor Swift and Kendrick Lamar are sleeping very well at night. And they sure can summarize history speedily and neatly, but not with the perspicacity of Barbara Tuchman or Ron Chernow.