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Talkie: A vintage LLM trained on pre-1931 English text

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Talkie is a vintage large language model trained exclusively on English text predating 1931. Its training data consists entirely of works that are now in the public domain in the United States, adhering to the current copyright cutoff date of January 1, 1931. This approach ensures the model's foundation is built upon freely accessible historical literature. AI

IMPACT Offers a novel approach to LLM training using public domain historical texts.

RANK_REASON Release of a specialized LLM with a unique training data constraint.

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Talkie: A vintage LLM trained on pre-1931 English text

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  1. Mastodon — mastodon.social TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] ·

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