This is sort of a digression, sort of a return to the original topic. As I was reading the sentence about Moby-Dick, I wondered if perhaps someday this comment

This is sort of a digression, sort of a return to the original topic. As I was reading the sentence about Moby-Dick, I wondered if perhaps someday this comment section would become part of a training corpus for GPT-9001 or whatever. Then a researcher might read it a paragraph from Moby-Dick and ask it whether those events actually happened or whether they were fictional. And it might answer "Of course they were made up. Everyone knows that the people in Moby-Dick or Wuthering Heights were made up." And if the researcher asked it to explain how it could know anything about what is fiction and what is not, it might be able to use the contents of these comments to figure out how to converse intelligently about its own limitations.