... the LLM doesn't have a concept of history, so in a way everything is 'contemporary', even if the source is historical. I guess that there are loads of ads and influencer stuff in the dataset, so buff Descartes is a plausible outcome even though it clashes with what we'd expect /2

... and this part is kinda interesting. So while Warburg was trying to trace how specific poses ("Pathosformeln") survived throughout the ages, the LLMs 'flattening' of time much rather shows the discontinuities, possible assemblages of styles/poses/references that don't make sense, culturally /fin