arxivcs.CLcs.AI2026-07-23
Artificial Epanorthosis: Why large language models overuse a classical rhetorical figure, and how to mitigate it
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 «This is not a course. It is a journey of transformation». This essay argues that th…