Trained LLMs exclusively on pre-1913 texts

Re:Trained LLMs exclusively on pre-1913 texts by joeycastillo on Thursday December 18, 2025 @07:20PM (#46320755)

A question for those who think LLM’s are the path to artificial intelligence: if a large language model trained on pre-1913 data is a window into the past, how is a large language model trained on pre-2025 data not effectively the same thing?

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Re:Trained LLMs exclusively on pre-1913 texts by _--__--__ on Thursday December 18, 2025 @08:07PM (#46321091)

You're a human intelligence with knowledge of the past - assuming you were alive at the time, could you tell me (without consulting external resources) what exactly happened between arriving at an airport and boarding a plane in the year 2000? What about 2002?

Neither human memory nor LLM learning creates perfect snapshots of past information without the contamination of what came later.

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Re:Trained LLMs exclusively on pre-1913 texts by block_dagger on Thursday December 18, 2025 @07:22PM (#46320776)

Counter question: how does a training set, representing a window into the past, differ from your own experience as an intelligent entity? Are you able to see into the future? How?

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Re:Trained LLMs exclusively on pre-1913 texts by ex-aws-dude on Thursday December 18, 2025 @07:23PM (#46320779)

A human brain is a window to the person's past?

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