Comment by Melanie Subbiah

Lead author of research on evaluating large language models’ short-story summarization; sixth-year PhD student at Columbia University’s McKeown lab.
Models can seem like they understand a story, but their outputs are ultimately unpredictable because they rely on probabilities. A trained human literary analyst would produce consistently strong insights, but even the best model is only about 50/50—essentially a coin flip—in giving a reliable analysis for any given story.
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