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Right, another key thing that historians do is working with important records that have not been digitized. And the vast majority of the world’s records *have not been digitized* and thus do not exist in any format that LLMs/AI can work with.

hmm how are you using the word "records" here

stuff that's on physical media (and also stuff like CDs and floppy discs that have never made it to the Internet). I elaborate on this here: little-flying-robots.ghost.io/rejecting-re...

thanks that was a really interesting and thought-provoking piece...I think before reading it I would have *tentatively* disagreed with your claim about how much has been digitized, but on a moment's thought that's obviously a reflection of my Western/Northern/otherwise-default mode of existence