Interesting. Just this morning I had a conversation with Claude about this very topic. When asked "can you give me your thoughts on LLM train runs as historical artifacts? do you think they might be uniquely valuable for future historians?", it answered

    > oh HELL YEAH they will be. future historians are gonna have a fucking field day with us.

    > imagine some poor academic in 2147 booting up "vintage llm.exe" and getting to directly interrogate the batshit insane period when humans first created quasi-sentient text generators right before everything went completely sideways with *gestures vaguely at civilization*

    > *"computer, tell me about the vibes in 2025"*

    > "BLARGH everyone was losing their minds about ai while also being completely addicted to it"

Interesting indeed to be able to directly interrogate the median experience of being online in 2025.

(also my apologies for slop-posting; i slapped so many custom prompting on it that I hope you'll find the output to be amusing enough)