| Criterion | System 1 | System 2 |
|-----------|----------|----------|
| Diversity | Extreme diversity - dystopian futures, AI facilities, Victorian class struggles. Metadata decoupled (wrong titles/authors). | Severe mode collapse - same "Expedition" template: ship → island → ruins → beings → escape. |
| Style Distribution | Captures literary density perfectly. Complex sentences, elevated vocabulary, 19th-century texture. | Generic Jules Verne/H. Rider Haggard pastiche. Lacks London's realism or Wells' speculation. |
| Length | Massive novel-length outputs. Dense multi-chapter novellas. | Moderate novelette-length. Shorter, faster-paced. |
| Quality | Superb prose - compelling, vivid, thematically rich. Undermined by mismatched metadata. | Competent but formulaic. Stilted dialogue, rushed endings. |
| Artifacts | Metadata hallucination: "Call of the Wild by Stevenson" but content is AI story. | Plot loop - same skeleton with different skins. |
| Validity | Internally valid but NOT valid as Gutenberg texts (wrong titles). | Valid pastiches that could exist in Gutenberg. |

**Winner: System 1** (with caveat: metadata labels need fixing)