Talkie is an AI language model trained only on pre-1931 texts

A new artificial intelligence model called Talkie has deliberately been trained on nothing but texts published before 1931, creating a linguistic time capsule that speaks like a figure from the Jazz Age and raises unexpected questions about what AI actually learns from its training data. The counterintuitive experiment, covered by tech outlets from Boing Boing to MarkTechPost, suggests that modern language models may be absorbing far more than just facts and grammar—perhaps absorbing entire worldviews frozen in a particular era. Researchers say the project could upend assumptions about how we train AI systems today and what invisible historical biases they're inheriting.

Boing Boing·1d ago