[qingcharles]

I think exactly this. When someone is given the task of writing a book review for the New Yorker there is a (probably unstated) agreement that they won't simply summarize the contents, but weave it into an essay in the way the LLM proposed. You could definitely get a similar result from an LLM by giving a more suitable and verbose prompt such as "review these 3 titles together, talk about their shared themes and concepts in a way that is relevant to the contemporary audience" etc etc.