Soons Luuk

Agentic Stemmatics: Collation, Provenance, and Conservation for an Emerging Machine Textual Tradition

Large language models emit testimony: fluent claims whose warrant lies outside the act of generation. What science fits such output? We argue it is the one philology built for corrupt textual transmission: stemmatics. Not, however, as an identity claim. An earlier draft of this paper made that claim, and four separatel...