An amateur historian has discovered a long-lost short story by Bram Stoker

I don't mean to disparage this particular instance at all, as it seems pretty great. But I wonder if the rise of llms is going to make scams that sounds a lot like this much easier in the future. I think at the moment it's hard to make something really sound like a particular author without a lot of work, but that will probably change in the future.

Sure, people can do scams but it will be way more interesting to apply them to finding stuff like this. Up through now, literary treasures and open secrets are sitting out waiting to be recognized.

And why bother with trying to deceive when one could build reputation for creating truly good fan fiction based off real source material.

Just because tech can be used to abuse trust doesn't mean it will be the most interesting and commonly recognized thing to do with it.

I can see it now:

"3 million lost works of Shakespeare found"

I imagine it will be a lot like other pieces of art where the provenance is really critical. If it cannot be traced properly back to the originator, then it will always be viewed as dubious. With that said, as a person largely ignorant of the field, I'd wager this is probably true now, irrespective the rise of LLMs.