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

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

by simonw • 4 months ago

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simonw• 4 months ago

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

sharkjacobs• 4 months ago

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

no-name-here• 4 months ago

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.

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

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