April 24th 2026 - LLMs Are Good at Guessing Books from Passages

Gemini is very good at guessing books from partial lines

I gave Gemini the phrase "The way the men all but huddled together" and asked it to guess it was from the book The Eye of the World by Robert Jordan. ChatGPT did not guess it correctly.

This isn't the first time I've asked AI to guess a book from a partial line. But every time it takes me by surprise that it can guess such an obscure passage with partial information.