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A model trained only on pre-1931 text is used to measure the present

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Alec Radford and colleagues launched Talkie, a 13-billion-parameter model trained only on pre-1931 text, which was reportedly especially astonished by the events of the 1960s.

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The corpus opened on a model trained only on Victorian London. This is the same idea returned as an instrument for measuring the present.

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