Perhaps fine-tuning is a better word? I am unsure what is the process that let an LLM switch from just a next word prediction tool to a chatbox. Instruction tuning?
The author basically chose some of the output based on set criteria. I think this can eventually be automated and embedded into the protein language model the same way ChatGPT now has guardrails and specific ways to answer questions, instead of following up with the most likely sentence, e.g.: asking it what is the capital of france get an output of another question about what is the capital of germany.