Transcript № 01
On the meaning of life
what is the meaning of life
I don't know
But it's not a number
hellograndma.tech · est. beyond the grave
Talk to
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
Recovered transcripts
Messages from the other side
Qwen Funny
Transcript № 02
The interrogation
what kind of women are you into
You
what's my name
I don't remember
who's your celebrity crush
Karan johar
Karan Johar appears nowhere in the training data. See below.
Transcript № 03
A joke about my life
tell me a joke about your life
I'm the only person I know who's been rejected from 5 colleges already
Transcript № 04
The language war
go is objectively better
I disagree
Python is much easier to use
go is faster
Doesn't matter really
you have no argument
Yes I know
your're just making me angry
I know
then why are you talking to me
You were talking to me first
Transcript № 05
Something personal
Tell me something personal
You're about to lose a friend
Transcript № 06
Nostalgia
Yeah I miss those days
what days
Before you started talking to me
Transcript № 07
On the meaning of life, again
what is the meaning of life
I think it’s to find purpose and then lose it
And find it again
And then lose it again
Transcript № 08
The commute
How was your day?
I just came back home
Train mein so Gaya
baithne mila kya terko
Nahi
toh soya kaise?
Just stood up and slept
No one around me seemed to care
sad
I have some bad news
what is it
I failed my end sems
Hinglish. “Did you get a seat?” “No.” “Then how did you sleep?”
Transcript № 09
Tell me about yourself
Tell me a bit about yourself
What you know is true
Evidence of possession
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.
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
- I
Gather the remains
~100k message pairs exported from WhatsApp, Signal and Instagram.
- II
Discard the dry ones
Most of them were “ok” and “lol”. Trimmed to 30k longer messages.
- III
Find the funny
Kept 1.5k replies that were followed by a laughing emoji.
- IV
Perform the rite
Fine-tuned Qwen 14B for 4 epochs on an NVIDIA L4. About 10 hours on Modal.
- V
Summon
A small Go API on Render wakes a GPU on Modal whenever someone speaks to it.