The issue is that generative AI systems don’t want messy perspective jumps. They want the median, the average, the most widely-approved of viewpoint on an issue, a kind of soft-focus perspective that is the exact opposite of how a good historian should be thinking.
To be in an archive is to be confronted with the contradictions, controversies, secrets, and unspoken facts of a person’s life or of a time and place.
— Read on resobscura.substack.com/p/ai-legibility-archives-future-of-research