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Simon Willison

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When I published this post I hadn't yet come across Trip's own writeup of the project, which provides way more detail about how he trained the model including SFT (supervised fine tuning) against synthetic chat examples created using Claude Haiku and GPT-4o-mini https://www.estragon.news/mr-chatterbox-or-the-modern-prometheus/

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Mr. Chatterbox, or, The Modern Prometheus

A few days ago, I posted about a personal project that I've been working on for the last few weeks: Mr. Chatterbox, a chatbot trained from scratch on Victorian-era literature. I have to admit, I was totally blown away (and a little frightened!) by the reception. Whenever I post about

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11:51 AM · Mar 31, 2026