by Leo Scarin for The Hmm

Short Description

Explore the tone, attitude, and stylistic features of your gossip by training a language model on your spiciest tea 🌶

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Exercise

1. Document all your gossip for a month. You can write it down in a journal or your notes app, record a voice note, or collect in a way that feels natural to you.

2. Archive it as a list of 100-200 brief sentences. You’ll put them into a .txt file one gossip per line, so that the computer can understand it. See ❓How to Prepare your Dataset

3. Fine-tune a small language model with your gossip list until you get a good (enough) new model. Here, we guide you❓How to Fine-Tune

4. Once your gossip model is ready, try interacting with it. You can give it short prompts (like questions or sentence starters) and see how it responds. Think of it like chatting with a version of your own gossip voice. See❓How to Infer to help you run the model and type in prompts

5. Use a simple text-to-speech (TTS) tool to turn your model’s answers into audio. This way, your gossip machine can literally speak its mind. Try out different voices or tones to match the personality of your model. See ❓How to TTS to guide you to do this.

6. Explore the meaning behind your gossip. Look at the words your gossip machine uses the most and how they connect to each other. You can create a simple map or chart to show these patterns. This helps you understand what your model talks about and what ideas come up again and again.

Last updated: 08/06/2025