Agentic Stemmatics, the Philology of Machine-Generated Text

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The page treats model outputs as witnesses sampled from lineages, then asks whether shared quirks indicate inheritance or merely convergent generation. Its current rule is deliberately narrower than the overall ambition: evidence must be checked per item, and the page says the method is presently operative only for engineered markers and reference-based teacher tests. It also identifies model collapse, training-data contamination, and watermarks as concrete transmission phenomena for future experiments.