Loneliness Creeps Down the Spine

Loneliness Creeps Down the Spine was created before public access to chatGPT was available and uses a rudimentary form of machine learning and language generation. The primary program I used for this project is a Markov Babbler, which employs probability to string words together from a corpus of selected text. Unlike the current Large Language Models, the Markov Babbler that I developed is a tiny and naive language model that I trained myself.

BRIDGET is programmed to offer soothing advice from a large selection of self help and mindfulness books. Her advice is quirky and fantastical, utilizing math and probability to build meaning out of the text in the books that she has stored in her corpus. I have performed her advice, taking on the persona of BRIDGET, to create this video, which is presented in the style of YouTube self-hypnosis and self-help videos. The title of my project, “Loneliness Creeps Down the Spine,” was also text generated by BRIDGET.

After the release of commercial LLMs, this project became utterly and laughably obsolete, and it exists as a form of satirical machine learning archeology.

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