Munro, Daniel: Artificial Storytellers

_Philosophical Psychology_. forthcomingRecent large language models (LLMs), such as GPT or Claude, can produce texts that look remarkably like human-authored stories. Scholarly and popular discussions often uncritically assume that these texts count as genuine stories or narratives. However, this paper steps back from this assumption to ask more fundamental, conceptual questions: When current LLMs are prompted to write stories, do the texts they output count as genuine stories? If not, are LLMs