Crlf (auto-discovered)

A developer building a vintage-style LLM chatbot from scratch reports that fine-tuning with modern prompts degrades the model's old-fashioned tone, despite using 99% genuine vintage books and newspape…

A developer built a 340-million-parameter vintage LLM from nearly scratch, training it exclusively on texts from before 1900 using custom scripts and datasets. The open-source model, available on Hugg…