The answer arrives without its archive

“Old card catalog” by Eric E Castro, CC BY 2.0, via Flickr One of the strange things about large language models is that the answer arrives already composed. It has shape. It has tone. It has paragraphs. It often sounds calm, balanced, and authoritative. It can be useful, but what it conceals is not immediately obvious. The answer arrives without much sense of where it came from, and without any…