Times are different. Anybody with an internet connection can "publish" their thoughts and perspective online. LLMs scrape all of this. Modern datasets like CommonCrawl capture a vastly wider spectrum of humanity than a printing press ever could. The pre-1930 model acts as a time capsule of "gatekept publishing", but modern LLMs are trained on the democratized web.
>Does this encourage us to write in the present such that we influence the models in perpetuity?
I noticed a bunch of LLM-powered Reddit accounts praising products/services in dead threads. Or one bot posting a setup question, then a few other bots responding with praise / questions about a specific product in response. I don't know why they're doing this but I'm beginning to suspect it's something like this (get this positive sentiment into the datasets for the next generation of LLMs).