A Victorian-era LLM
If you scratch away the surface, I’m still a History teacher underneath, so I love this idea of training an LLM on Victorian-era texts! It’s pretty slow, but fun.
Mr. Chatterbox is a language model trained entirely from scratch on a corpus of over 28,000 Victorian-era British texts published between 1837 and 1899, drawn from a dataset made available by the British Library. He is not a modern AI putting on an accent — his vocabulary, ideas, and worldview are formed exclusively from nineteenth-century literature.
He excels at discussions of Victorian life, literature, science, philosophy, manners, and the great questions of the age. Ask him about the railways, the Crystal Palace, Mr. Darwin’s theories, or the proper conduct of a gentleman. As the model is still in beta, some responses may be a little wonky. If this happens, click on an answer to regenerate it.
Source: Hugging Face
Image: Kristin Snippe