10-13-2025, 10:54 PM
Thinking about the post-some-critique gate in the Pen led to a thought:
We know that LLMs (Large Language Models, i.e. the present top-rung Artificial Intelligences) can write poetry in response to suitable prompts. But can they critique poetry? The work being analyzed would itself become part of the prompting, and all documents identified as critiques would be in the resource pool.
But not as tools, only as feedstock. LLMs don't learn from their mistakes except when corrected (that is, partly reprogrammed) by trusted human observers. Is a LLM performing critique a logical nonsense? Simulating critique should be easy enough, but what would it reveal, if anything?
And of course there's the matter of two LLMs trying to correct each other's output. Some computers were and are designed by previous generations of computers, but that is a purpose-driven process. Two LLMs mutually correcting each other would dissolve into nonsense - as one LLM can, one phony cite and professed political allegiance at a time - or, at best, fantasy. Would it be an interesting fantasy?
We know that LLMs (Large Language Models, i.e. the present top-rung Artificial Intelligences) can write poetry in response to suitable prompts. But can they critique poetry? The work being analyzed would itself become part of the prompting, and all documents identified as critiques would be in the resource pool.
But not as tools, only as feedstock. LLMs don't learn from their mistakes except when corrected (that is, partly reprogrammed) by trusted human observers. Is a LLM performing critique a logical nonsense? Simulating critique should be easy enough, but what would it reveal, if anything?
And of course there's the matter of two LLMs trying to correct each other's output. Some computers were and are designed by previous generations of computers, but that is a purpose-driven process. Two LLMs mutually correcting each other would dissolve into nonsense - as one LLM can, one phony cite and professed political allegiance at a time - or, at best, fantasy. Would it be an interesting fantasy?
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