LLMs could be great tools for measuring the impact of an author on the culture. They have the data to recognize when new concepts and motifs are introduced by a

LLMs could be great tools for measuring the impact of an author on the culture. They have the data to recognize when new concepts and motifs are introduced by a piece of literature and disperse forward in time through the culture. They can somewhat measure the breadth of the influence. You could build an index of the cultural impact of a source from zero to one, and rank them. It's a more direct and general measure of influence than citation count. It would be interesting to list the sources with the most impact but the least recognition. Does the dark matter of literature have a large pull?