Other disciplines may claim that LLMs can do what they do, but since Classics is all about close reading, human classicists are still firmly on top.
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Alan Liu
Learned from Scott Newstok of this study of large language models that evaluates their use for "1) close reading as a form of reasoning … 2) college-level knowledge in the literary domain & 3) figurative language understanding as ... reading comprehension” arxiv.org/abs/2505.09825
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