An experiment with using an AI to write history

I have been experimenting with llama.cpp and gemma4 running offline on my Debian Linux computer

./llama-server -hf unsloth/gemma-4-31B-it-GGUF --offline  --host 0.0.0.0 --tools read_file,get_datetime,grep_search -t 22 --jinja --image-min-tokens 1120 --image-max-tokens 1120 --ubatch-size 2048 --batch-size 2048

I do not know much about it, so I likely did several things wrong. Previously I spent a few weeks trying to get gemma4 to write code, but the code was poorly written and variable names that should have been used from library header files were instead hallucinated.

After the Table of Contents created by gemma, I will include some of the sources that I would have used.

Diversity in Ancient Christianity: A Historical Survey

Exploring the tapestry of early faith, from the deserts of Egypt to the courts of Milan.

Some sources of historical information

Augustine is intereresting to me because Martin Luther was an Augustinian Priest as is Pope Leo. It seems to me that the protestant reformation and the Catholic counter-reformation made the ideas of Augustine more prominent than they had been previously. It seems to me that Augustine brought the Manichaean Duality ideas into Christianity. That duality is becoming popular again now. In the past, that duality has led to religious wars. I attempted to provide quotes from information found at many of these links to gemma4 as context, but the PDF files might not have been readable by the AI.