Mr. Chatterbox is a Victorian-era ethically trained model (simonwillison.net) AI

Trip released “Mr. Chatterbox,” a small language model trained only on Victorian-era (1837–1899) British Library texts, designed to run locally and avoid post-1899 data. Simon Willison tests the model and finds it largely produces Markov-chain-like responses—though it has a period-appropriate style—using a Hugging Face demo and a locally installable plugin. He also argues that more training data may be needed for a model of its size to become a truly useful conversational partner.