alt.hn

3/30/2026 at 2:47:09 PM

Mr. Chatterbox is a (weak) Victorian-era ethically trained model

https://simonwillison.net/2026/Mar/30/mr-chatterbox/

by simonw

3/31/2026 at 6:44:18 AM

As Simon said in his post:

> Honestly, it’s pretty terrible. Talking with it feels more like chatting with a Markov chain than an LLM—the responses may have a delightfully Victorian flavor to them but it’s hard to get a response that usefully answers a question.

I tried it and I agree.

by no-name-here

3/30/2026 at 2:47:53 PM

If you have uv installed you can start a chat with the model (after a 2GB model download) with this one-liner:

  uvx --with llm-mrchatterbox llm chat -m mrchatterbox

by simonw

3/30/2026 at 9:38:48 PM

This is fantastically cool. I can't believe this is possible with such a small and narrow dataset.

by sharkjacobs