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Monday, 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
Release llm-mrchatterbox 0.1.1 — Chat with Mr Chatterbox, trained on a corpus of over 28,000 Victorian-era British texts published between 1837 and 1899

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

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

Trip Venturella released Mr. Chatterbox, a language model trained entirely on out-of-copyright text from the British Library. Here’s how he describes it:

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Sunday, 29th March 2026