Show HN: ChillTranslator tool to calm internet comments

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2 years ago

The internet gets more busy and has polarised discussion. I saw a comment here on HN that was more spicy that I think it should have been, and I imagined if it was me on the receiving end, it would have been really painful to read, unnecessarily so, and yet it had some good insights.

I thought `surely I could get a large language model to make a more calm alternate text while honouring the original intent as best as possible?` Well it works sorta okay, I've got a slow and costly implementation using my own Mistral credits, that I am paying for (free credits are welcome!)

I've just set it up to collect data for fine-tuning a translator (encoder-decoder) model later, I've also identified some datasets I could use, as well as collecting from people using the Space. I have a roadmap on the GitHub page.

I tried using Mixtral with llama.cpp's Python interface on RunPod Severless and HuggingFace (with JSON grammars enforced), but it wasn't reliable enough so I am just using the Mistral API.

Wouldn't it be great to have rose tinted glasses that show a calmer internet? Or in the moment offer people better alternatives instead of posting something inflammatory?

ChillTranslator is a tool aiming to transform toxic online comments into more constructive dialogues.

It's MIT licensed Python code with a Gradio frontend and module that might be reused elsewhere. Ideally people could just pip install it and have it just work right away but I fear there will be rate limits and moderation limits hit easily, so I figure a small translator model is a good solution. Currently I know it's going to be biased in the way that LLM's usually are, and it might not work very well, and it's buggy, but it's a start! There is a demo here: https://huggingface.co/lukestanley/ChillTranslator

What do you think?

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