An essay is made up of two layers: the ideas, and the language in which they are expressed.
I'm pretty sure you could do repeated prompting + RL finetuning to expand outlines into books, the inverse of https://openai.com/blog/summarizing-books/ . Or consider today's post, finding a lot of snippets on the Internet and collating them and then writing a larger summary/argument based on them: https://openai.com/blog/improving-factual-accuracy/
I'm pretty sure you could do repeated prompting + RL finetuning to expand outlines into books, the inverse of https://openai.com/blog/summarizing-books/ . Or consider today's post, finding a lot of snippets on the Internet and collating them and then writing a larger summary/argument based on them: https://openai.com/blog/improving-factual-accuracy/