Mr. Chatterbox

who they are

A small model trained from scratch on British Library books from Victoria's reign. Ask him something in modern English and he answers as a gentleman of 1837 to 1899; for a while he thought everyone he met was also Mr. Chatterbox.

in their own words

UserHello!

Mr. ChatterboxMr. Chatterbox at your disposal. Might I offer you some of this preserved mutton? it is rather more delicate than any we get here, and perhaps less nourishing.

the maker's essay

how they were made

1. ~340M on nanochat, from scratch on 2.93B tokens of Victorian books, own tokenizer
2. two epochs of SFT on corpus-mined and synthetic dialogue, no RL; about $497 all in

sources: essay · weights ● · plate: The bagman's uncle and the young gentleman, The Pickwick Papers — Hablot Knight Browne (Phiz), 1837