[idonotknowwhy]

>The voiceless groups or fringe opinions which we take as normative today do not appear.

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).