Simon Willison’s Weblog

30th March 2026

Release llm-mrchatterbox 0.1 — Chat with Mr Chatterbox, trained on a corpus of over 28,000 Victorian-era British texts published between 1837 and 1899

See Mr. Chatterbox is a (weak) Victorian-era ethically trained model you can run on your own computer.

Posted 30th March 2026 at 2:20 am

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