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Large Language Models are increasingly used for tasks beyond simple text generation, and now, one Redditor has put them to the test as historians. The user queried Grok, Gemini, Perplexity, and ChatGPT, asking them to identify the most powerful empire or entity for each of the past ten centuries. The compiled results, available on Reddit [https://old.reddit.com/r/artificial/comments/1ohnup1/q_i_asked_llms_which_dynastyentitycountry_was_the/], offer a fascinating glimpse into how these AIs interpret historical data, revealing both insightful conclusions and, occasionally, historical inaccuracies. The experiment highlights the potential, and the limitations, of using LLMs to analyze and interpret complex historical events.