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How can vintage models be contamination free if a newspaper clipping with “general relativity” accidentally slipped through into the training data? I don’t see such a guarantee described in the methodology

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In contrast, I asked it about the lumeniferous aether and the Michelson-Morley experiment (which was late 19th C) and it said the aether was not disproved by the experiment (even though special relativity was like 1905 or something).

So definitely the event horizon of the model’s knowledge is a bit porous/nonspecific in either direction.

General Relativity was published in 1916.

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