Abstract:

This article reconsiders the role of compiling in the modern history of authorship. Nineteenth-century readers viewed compiling as the purest form of "book-making," a mechanistic, market-oriented model of authorship that stood in opposition to authorial genius. The article examines these authorial models' intertwined origins in emergent industrial capitalism, and argues that book-making retained currency as a model into the early twentieth century partly because unattributed text reuse remained common. It also argues that in the aggregate, unattributed text reuse had epistemic and informational effects that anticipated challenges we are grappling with following the development of large language models.

摘要：

本文重新思考编译在现代作者史中的作用。十九世纪的读者将编译视为最纯粹的“书籍制作”形式，是一种机械的、以市场为导向的作者模式，与作者天才相对立。本文探讨了这些作者模式在新兴工业资本主义中相互交织的起源，并认为书籍制作作为一种模式保留到二十世纪初，部分原因是未归属的文本重用仍然很常见。它还认为，总体而言，未归因的文本重用具有认知和信息影响，这预示着我们在大型语言模型的开发之后正在努力应对的挑战。