Comment by andai

In 2020, a friend and I did this with our mutual WhatsApp chat history.

Except instead we fine-tuned GPT-2 instead. (As was the fashion at the time!)

We used this one, I think https://github.com/minimaxir/gpt-2-simple

I think it took 2-3 hours on my friend's Nvidia something.

The result was absolutely hilarious. It was halfway between a markov chain and what you'd expect from a very small LLM these days. Completely absurd nonsense, yet eerily coherent.

Also, it picked up enough of our personality and speech patterns to shine a very low resolution mirror on our souls...

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Andy: So here's how you get a girlfriend:

1. Start making silly faces

2. Hold out your hand for guys to swipe

3. Walk past them

4. Ask them if they can take their shirt off

5. Get them to take their shirt off

6. Keep walking until they drop their shirt

Andy: Can I state explicitly this is the optimal strategy