Mr. Chatterbox is a Victorian-era ethically trained model

y1n0 20 points 4 comments March 31, 2026
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parpfish

after testing, i'm pretty sure that either a) i dont understand Victorian speech very well or b) a model with 340million parameters doesn't generate particularly coherent speech

lovelearning

I thought the title meant the training data used was ethics content and ethical reasoning. Turns out "ethically trained" means the training data used doesn't violate copyright laws.

kgeist

Prior art: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46590280 >TimeCapsuleLLM: LLM trained only on data from 1800-1875

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