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LLM Authorship
Writing an entire book with a language model pushes the limits of automated coherence.
Technical Achievement
- Coherence cliff: Maintaining a single storyline across hundreds of pages is difficult. The project shows a working method to keep consistency without falling off this "cliff".
- Workflow orchestration: Each chapter is generated and revised through scripted tasks, not manual editing. That automation proves large-scale text can be produced by LLM alone.
Cultural Impact
- Legal uncertainty remains around copyright when no human is credited as author. The book becomes a case study for future policy.
- Similar experiments like 1 the Road or Death of an Author relied on heavy human curation. A fully generated book challenges expectations of creativity.
- Readers must decide if machine prose carries the same weight as human literature.
Evaluating with AVOS
The AVOS framework—Analyse, Validation, Opportunité, Singularité—helps measure the importance of this experiment. It assesses technical soundness, real-world value, and the uniqueness of a book entirely shaped by an AI.