Thoughts on Historical Language Models and Talkie-1930

It’s an interesting thought that our LLMs are Professor Oldman from “Man from Earth”, rather than someone more of this age. It probably isn’t actually true because training would reinforce more recent data but an interesting thought that these things are actually impossibly _ancient_.

Asking talkie-1930 about whether communism could succeed in China is flagged as "potentially inappropriate." They use Qwen3Guard-Gen-4B from Alibaba for moderation.