CascadiaJS 2026 · Notes
← All talks

Beowulf Stroganoff: Building Economically Useless Chatbots

Molly Jean Bennett · Grow Therapy · Day 2

Ancient times: 2022.

Dall-E mini!

AGI not a useful term.

"economically valuable work" — from the OpenAI charter.

Flattening culture.

What would happen if we made language models BAD?

LoRA — Low-Rank Adaptation — keep the base frozen and train on top of it.

v2 — add a big text file of inspirational quotes and slogans.

Better than a programmatic randomizer?

  • yes

Useful for creative purposes?

  • no

Protect your joy. Make bad things!

Referenced

Slides