Exactly. I think if you are curious and already have experience or expertise in a domain there are really enormous opportunities for using this to learn in productive ways. I also think LLM’s are actively undermining that curiosity and domain expertise for our students.

Then we need better LLMs or better ways of using them. The genie is not going back in 🍾 I see how LLMs would undermine existing assignments, but it’s not clear to me why they inherently undermine historical curiosity?—unless we assume they must always have a homogenized bland perspective. +

I don’t think that’s an architectural requirement. We could train LLMs that are better at reporting differences of opinion about history, areas of ignorance, areas where archival material needs to be consulted, &c. I also think *good* (underline) historical language models would increase curiosity.