irwinMar 10, 2023

Checking out Chatbase (a service which allows you to train a chatbot on a particular text or website).

https://www.chatbase.co/

It's actually quite good, but uh, here's their page of Featured Chatbots.

Chatbase | Custom ChatGPT for your data

Build an AI chatbot from your knowledge base and add it to your website or interact with it through our API.

Chatbase | Custom ChatGPT for your data
Show threadJason KottkeMar 10, 2023
@irwin There's a little something for everyone there... 🥴
Show threadirwinMar 10, 2023

@jkottke Here, I just made one trained on Sara Ahmed's "A Phenomenology of Whiteness":

https://www.chatbase.co/chatbot/phenomenology-of-whiteness-pdf-an3xiotup

Chatbase | Build a custom ChatGPT trained on your data

Build an AI chatbot from your knowledge base.

Chatbase | Build a custom ChatGPT trained on your data
Show threadBlake EskinMar 10, 2023
@irwin @jkottke so this is literally *_ebooks
Show threadBlake EskinMar 10, 2023
@irwin I uploaded a PDF of Perec's A Void and the answers are full of E's
Show threadBlake Eskin
@irwin fails the #lipogram test 👎 #oulipo #chatbots
Mar 10, 2023 at 4:15pmWeb
Show threadirwinMar 10, 2023
@bdeskin Ha. It's interesting once you interact more and more with these chatbots and LLMs, I don't know about you but my inherent level of trust of these models is lower and lower, even though they are sometimes surprising in their utility. If we're going to anthropomorphize them, we should also distrust them as we would any person who we find bullshitting us from time to time.
Show threadirwinMar 10, 2023
@bdeskin I know, multi-words but what about "hard old dairy product"?
Show threadirwinMar 10, 2023
@bdeskin Or "dairy tofu"
Show threadBlake EskinMar 10, 2023
@irwin dry milk with mold
Show threadirwinMar 10, 2023
@bdeskin that's good! moldy dry milk