Giant language fashions (LLMs) have quickly entered the panorama of historic analysis. Their capability to course of, annotate and generate texts is remodeling scholarly workflows. But historians are uniquely positioned to ask a deeper query – who owns the instruments that form our understanding of the previous?
Strongest LLMs at present are developed by non-public corporations. Whereas their investments are important, their targets – centered on revenue, platform development or mental property management – not often align with the values of historic scholarship: transparency, reproducibility, accessibility and cultural variety.
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