alt Hacker Newslike OP originally said, the LLM doesn't have access to the actual process of the author, only the completed/refined output.
Not sure why you need a concrete example to "test", but just think about the fact that the LLM has no idea how a writer brainstorms, re-iterates on their work, or even comes up with the ideas in the first place.
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> has no idea how a writer brainstorms
This isn't true in general, and not even true in many specific cases, because a great deal of writers have described the process of writing in detail and all of that is in their training data. Claude and chatgpt very much know how novels are written, and you can go into claude code and tell it you want to write a novel and it'll walk you through quite a lot of it -- worldbuilding, characters, plotting, timelines, etc.
It's very true that LLMs are not good at "ideas" to begin with, though.
i don't buy this logic. if i have studied an author greatly i will be able to recognise patterns and be able to write like them.
ex: i read a lot of shakespeare, understand patterns, understand where he came from, his biography and i will be able to write like him. why is it different for an LLM?
i again don't get what the point is?
why not? datasets are not only finished works, there's datasets that go into the process they're just available in smaller quantities