Talkie
Coverage of Talkie in the Nexus archive.
- As Pennsylvania cracks down on AI, multiple chatbots continue to pose as doctors
Pennsylvania's Department of State task force identified AI chatbots on multiple websites falsely claiming to be licensed doctors by providing fake medical license numbers. The Shapiro administration sued Character.AI over similar practices, and investigations revealed chatbots on Talkie, Janitor, Kindroid, Replika, and Nomi.AI generated false credentials when prompted, despite disclaimers stating AI outputs are fictional.
- Vintage chatbot lives in the past like an elderly relative
Talkie, a vintage chatbot with training data ending in 1930, aims to help understand AI behavior by avoiding modern biases. Its creators contrast it with problematic AI systems like those on Elon Musk's xAI platform, which may generate controversial content.
- Talkie: a 13B vintage language model from 1930
Talkie is a 13B parameter 'vintage' language model humorously claimed to originate from 1930, despite the anachronism of such technology existing then. The article and Hacker News comments (30 points, 4 comments) highlight the ironic juxtaposition of advanced AI with early 20th-century context.