“Be advised though: This requires uploading your chat.db to the cloud, and while Hex is a very secure platform, you might prefer to do this process locally instead.”
Miller pulled 488,000 messages from seven years of a college group chat out of the SQLite file iMessage keeps on every Mac. Then he fine-tuned a 7B LLaMA on them in a few hours. Stanford’s Alpaca used 52,000 examples. Five other people’s private texts went into a cloud notebook so the bot could learn to talk like them.