LLMs and Holocaust Research

In partnership with the US Holocaust Memorial Museum, we analyze the top Google queries related to the Holocaust that led Internet users to the USHMM encyclopedia, and compare the answers provided by USHMM encyclopedia entries and other forms of human-generated content provided by Google with AI-generated answers provided by various Large Language Models (GPT, Gemini, Grok, DeepSeek) as well as Google's AI Summary. We compare how they perform in terms of factuality, but we also explore how users can be exposed to hard to pinpoint differences like tone, completeness, biases, positionality, and moral or educational stances.