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Why would a super-fan be targeting so many authors?

I could imagine one, or a small group of, obsessive book collector(s) trying to collect obscure literary content within a narrow focus or genre, but I have trouble believing they'd put so much effort into acquiring drafts by a seemingly random assortment of authors.

I'm partial to your nefarious scenario.

Or here's another one: GPT-4 has escaped the lab and is collecting more material to learn from in its quest to be the world's best predictor of human narratives.

I like the idea it's someone testing if GPT-2 can phish.

There's a few GPT-2s running around.

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