Katharina Trinley

Unstructured Minds, Predictable Machines: A Comparative Study of Narrative Cohesion in Human and LLM Stream-of-Consciousness Writing

2025

This paper examines differences between stream-of-consciousness (SoC) narratives written by humans and those generated by large language models (LLMs) to assess narrative coherence and personality expression.We generated texts by prompting LLMs (Llama-3.1-8B& DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-8B) with the …