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PublishedJuly 24, 2026 at 4:00 AM
Artificial Epanorthosis: Why large language models overuse a classical rhetorical figure, and how to mitigate it
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arXiv:2607.21498v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: A rhetorical figure that Cicero and Quintilian catalogued two thousand years ago reappears, systematically, in the text of large language models: epanorthosis, the self-correction of the specimen {\guillemotleft}This is not a course. It is a journey
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