The paper investigates how language models transform factual news into narrative stories, revealing that standard source‑agreement metrics misjudge the quality of these retellings. By having three model families rewrite 2,000 news articles as summaries and as stories, the authors measured changes across the five Ws and identified distortions—especially in place, causation, and accountability—that are often overlooked by fact‑checking. They found that stories tend to lose critical contextual details while amplifying accountability distortions, which can shift blame and remain undetected by conventional checks.
By Kwangsuk Park, JiWoong Yang, Vaniushkina Kseniia
The paper investigates how language models transform factual news into stories, revealing that standard source‑agreement metrics misjudge intentional changes. By rewriting 2,000 news articles into summaries and stories, the authors measured alterations across the five Ws, finding that stories often lose place and causation details while increasing accountability distortions—sometimes downplaying perpetrators. The study introduces ReTold‑2k, a corpus and scoring protocol to detect and mitigate such distortions.
The study investigates whether large language models retain traces of abandoned syntactic analyses after encountering garden‑path sentences. Across 24 models ranging from 124 M to 70 B parameters, the authors find that a residue of the initial, incorrect analysis influences later object attachment by about three‑quarters of the effect seen when the noun phrase is truly an object. They further show that this residue originates from role information in the noun phrase’s states computed under the initial analysis, and that adaptation toward the resolved structure scales with disambiguation error and primarily affects comprehension‑like measures.
arXiv:2608. 12630v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: While large language models can generate entire novels, there is little information about the level of formal variation in their output over many generations.
By Mehdy Sedaghat Payam, Justin Quinn
The study investigates whether large language models retain traces of abandoned syntactic analyses after encountering garden‑path sentences. Across 24 models ranging from 124 M to 70 B parameters, the authors find that a residue of the initial, incorrect analysis influences later object attachment, while an adaptation toward the resolved structure scales with disambiguation error. Activation‑patching experiments show that the residue is carried by noun‑phrase states computed under the object analysis, and that overriding these states largely removes the effect.
By Xiang Ding
arXiv:2606. 29118v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Graph-based narrative extraction relies on a coherence function to score transitions between events, but the coherence metrics in current use are defined operationally and lack an information-theoretic foundation.
By Brian Keith-Norambuena