ParaLLM Construction, or, Investigative Reporting with Novel AI Use

(timing & location subject to change)

Suppose you are reporting on a political scandal. You have sources in the room and records of explosively newsworthy decisions, but nobody will go on record as to the contents, and you can't authenticate the records without risking sources. How would you report the meetings and records anyway?

You might think to ask an LLM to scour the entire Internet for all the places where a meeting participant was undisciplined. You would then be doing... paralLLM construction.

patio11 presents the technique with great specificity, applied to the SPLC and coalition's meetings with tech companies. Of interest to reporters, writers, and people interested in LLMs' impact on society and work.