> build your understanding by evaluating a plurality of sources and perspectives and get to the answer in a statistical manner
A few thousand years of pre-LLM primary sources remain available for evaluation by humans and LLMs.
A few thousand years of pre-LLM primary sources remain available for evaluation by humans and LLMs.
Every work had multiple versions. All versions were different. Some versions were diametrically opposed to others.
Have a look at Bible scholarship to see just _how_ divergent texts can become by nothing more than scribe errors.
A better example would have been the complaint tablet to Ea-nāṣir. We're pretty sure it's real; there might still be people alive that remember it being discovered. But in a hundred years, people with gen AI have created museums of fake artifacts but plausible, can future people be sure? A good fraction of the US population today believes wildly untrue things about events happening in real time!
I think you're right my analogy is imperfect. I'm only human (or am I? :P)
Reality/truth/history has always been an expensive pursuit in the face of evolving pollutants.