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the Dead

I fine-tuned an open-weight model on thousands of my own texts so my sense of humour would outlive me. These are transcripts from the other side.

i miss you. I wish you weren't dead

Yes me too

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Recovered transcripts

Messages from the other side

Séance transcript № 01 · Qwen Funny

On the meaning of life

You
what is the meaning of life
Ghost
I don't know But it's not a number

Hallucinations

The Karan Johar incident

finetune — zsh
(venv) aryan@finetune ⇝ grep -rin "celebrity crush" ./data/
(venv) aryan@finetune ⇝ grep -rin "Karan Johar" ./data/
(venv) aryan@finetune ⇝

Zero results. I have never once mentioned Karan Johar, and I have never been asked about a celebrity crush. The ghost has developed opinions of its own. It's also hilarious if you know who he is.

Ask the board

It only knows what it said

Every answer is a real reply from the transcripts above.

How the ghost was made

The ritual

  1. I

    Gather the remains

    ~100k message pairs exported from WhatsApp, Signal and Instagram.

  2. II

    Discard the dry ones

    Most of them were “ok” and “lol”. Trimmed to 30k longer messages.

  3. III

    Find the funny

    Kept 1.5k replies that were followed by a laughing emoji.

  4. IV

    Perform the rite

    Fine-tuned Qwen 14B for 4 epochs on an NVIDIA L4. About 10 hours on Modal.

  5. V

    Summon

    A small Go API on Render wakes a GPU on Modal whenever someone speaks to it.