A computer science student trained an AI exclusively on Victorian texts from 1800-1875. When prompted about 1834, the model accurately referenced real historical protests and Lord Palmerston—events the developer didn't know were factual. The "quarantine strategy" suggests what you exclude from training data may matter as much as what you include for authentic outputs.

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