> Imagine you could interview thousands of educated individuals from 1913—readers of newspapers, novels, and political treatises—about their views on peace, progress, gender roles, or empire. Not just survey them with preset questions, but engage in open-ended dialogue, probe their assumptions, and explore the boundaries of thought in that moment. Hell yeah, sold, let’s go… > We're developing a responsible access fra…
understand your frustration. i trust you also understand the models have some dark corners that someone could use to misrepresent the goals of our project. if you have ideas on how we could make the models more broadly accessible while avoiding that risk, please do reach out @ history-llms@econ.uzh.ch
Re: History LLMs: Models trained exclusively on pre-1913 texts
#451I'm surprised that you're even mentioning this risk. This isn't actually a risk. Anyone who would make an issue of this deserves to be confronted. Your abundance of caution is a self-fulfilling prophecy.