Replacing my best friends with an LLM trained on 500,000 group chat messages

Replacing my best friends with an LLM trained on 500,000 group chat messages

Izzy Miller used a 7 year long group text conversation with five friends from college to fine-tune LLaMA, such that it could simulate ongoing conversations. They started by extracting the messages from the iMessage SQLite database on their Mac, then generated a new training set from those messages and ran it using code from the Stanford Alpaca repository. This is genuinely one of the clearest explanations of …

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