Trained LLMs exclusively on pre-1913 texts

Re:Trained LLMs exclusively on pre-1913 texts by everythingfine9 on Friday December 19, 2025 @05:47PM (#46331864)

Wow, this is needlessly antagonistic. Given the emergence of online communities that bond on conspiracy theories and racist philosophies in the 20th century, it's not hard to imagine the consequences of widely disseminating an LLM that could be used to propagate and further these discredited (for example, racial) scientific theories for bad ends by uneducated people in these online communities.

We can debate on whether it's good or not, but ultimately they're publishing it and in some very small way responsible for some of its ends. At least that's how I can see their interest in disseminating the use of the LLM through a responsible framework.

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Re:Trained LLMs exclusively on pre-1913 texts by DGoettlich on Friday December 19, 2025 @07:31PM (#46332620)

thanks. i think this just took on a weird dynamic. we never said we'd lock the model away. not sure how this impression seems to have emerged for some. that aside, it was an announcement of a release, not a release. the main purpose was gathering feedback on our methodology. standard procedure in our domain is to first gather criticism, incorporate it, then publish results. but i understand people just wanted to talk to it. fair enough!

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