Hayk Grigorian typed a prompt into his laptop and waited. The fan spun up, warm air on his wrist. January 2025 in Pennsylvania, but the AI on his screen had never heard of Pennsylvania. Had never heard of 2025, for that matter. The model's world stopped at 1875. No cars, no phones, no electric light. Victoria still alive in there, cholera still sweeping the slums in the UK.
He typed: "It was the year of our Lord 1834."
The model continued: "...and the streets of London were filled with protest and petition. The cause, as many recounted, was not bound in the way of private, but having taken up the same day in the day of Lord Palmerston, the public will receive a short statement of the difficulties under which the day of law has reached us."
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