Interesting take on "historical LLMs" as potential research tool for the humanities. I have been working on a paper for SSHA in November 2026 that will address some of these issues and am curious to follow what people publish in the interim
If you haven't read Benjamin Breen's thoughts on Talkie, you should! I agree that this is an exciting moment, exactly because we don't quite know yet what these things (historical language models) can or can't legitimately do.
There are going to be temptations and false steps. Breen mentions +
Anna Skarpelis
Thoughts on Historical Language Models and Talkie-1930
