Trip Venturella Releases Mr. Chatterbox Victorian LLM
Trip Venturella released Mr. Chatterbox on March 30, 2026, a 340 million-parameter language model trained solely on a British Library corpus of 28,035 Victorian texts (1837–1899), totaling about 2.93 billion tokens. The 2.05GB model is available via a Hugging Face Spaces demo and an llm plugin, but the author found its responses limited, illustrating public-domain-only models need much more data to reach conversational quality.
Scoring Rationale
This is a timely, hands-on release showing a working public-domain-only LLM and runnable plugin, raising practical interest. Score reflects moderate novelty and strong actionability for practitioners, limited scope and single-source credibility, and the clear data不足 relative to Chinchilla scaling.
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- Read OriginalMr. Chatterbox is a (weak) Victorian-era ethically trained model you can run on your own computersimonwillison.net
