Isn't that what Tolkien did in his head? Write something, learn what he liked/didn't like then revise the words? Rinse/repeat. Same process here.

If Tolkien had not lived an entire life, fought in a war, been buddies with other authors, and also been a decent writer, the story doesn’t exist. And an LLM won’t come up with it.

An LLM isn’t coming up with the eye of Sauron, or the entire backstory of the ring, or gollum, etc etc

The LLM can’t know Tolkien had a whole universe built in his head that he worked for decades to get on to paper.

I’m so tired of this whole “an LLM just does what humans already do!” And then conflating that with “fuck all this LLM slop!”