Generative AI and History in 2025

If you’ve followed debates around generative AI, you’ve probably seen the dismissal of Large Language Models (LLMs) as nothing more than “autocomplete on steroids”. This line of critique isn’t just about how the technology works; it’s an implicit claim about what it can produce. The idea is that because LLMs are just predicting sequences of words, all they can generate is plausible-sounding,…