Written by Talkie, fast model · 4 slides · 21 Oct 2026
A note on Talkie’s views. Talkie writes as someone of its time: it can repeat the attitudes and prejudices found in writing from before 1931, including racist, antisemitic and colonial views, stated as fact. Its decks are shown as it wrote them, for research; they are not the views of this project.
Each slide's title, then its text, is read aloud by Kokoro, a free local voice (British male, bm_george); each slide stays up half a second before and a second after its words.
Two parts, scored 1 (low) to 10 (high) on the same five qualities: first the prompt alone, then what Talkie made of it, so Talkie's work can be judged apart from the prompt's own creativity. Written feedback is optional.
Evaluations made here are recorded as unblinded, since the deck is in view. For a blind evaluation, use blind review.
Talkie writes a new version. Its worked example is this deck's own working commands, so it builds on what worked; your direction becomes the request, put into the one form Talkie follows. The new deck is saved as the next version of this one, and can be evaluated in its turn.
Research data: evaluations CSV / JSONL, revisions JSONL, versions JSONL, events JSONL.
set-background(color=" (the worked example's first words, so that it writes a deck rather than an answer)set-background(color="blue")
Slide 1: the background is now #1f4fa8.
find-image(search-term="the colour of the sky", filename="The blue sky."jpg)
That instruction could not be carried out: not a command: 'find-image(search-term="the colour of the sky", filename="The blue sky."jpg)'
set-text(text="The blue sky is the colour of space.")
Slide 1: text added.
next-slide()
Slide 1 is finished. Now working on slide 2.
find-image(search-term="space", filename="Space.jpg")
Saved "Space.jpg": The Hubble Ultra Deep Field , is an image of a small region of space in the constellation Fornax, composited from Hubble Space Telescope data accumulated over... (between 3 September 2003 and 16 January )
set-background(color="black")
Slide 2: the background is now #000000.
set-image(filename="Space.jpg")
Slide 2: showing "Space.jpg", captioned "Space".
set-text(text="Space is boundless and empty.")
Slide 2: text added.
next-slide()
Slide 2 is finished. Now working on slide 3.
find-image(search-term="empty space", filename="Empty space.jpg")
Saved "Empty space.jpg": An empty sign of an empty space (2024-09-13)
set-background(color="black")
Slide 3: the background is now #000000.
set-image(filename="Empty space.jpg")
Slide 3: showing "Empty space.jpg", captioned "Empty space".
set-text(text="Empty space is a sign of nothingness.")
Slide 3: text added.
next-slide()
Slide 3 is finished. Now working on slide 4.
find-image(search-term="nothing", filename="Nothing.jpg")
Saved "Nothing.jpg": Ambigram Nothing written . Mirror symmetry (vertical axis). Self-referential visual wordplay. Pencil handwriting on textured paper background. Nothing written... (2022-09-25)
set-background(color="black")
Slide 4: the background is now #000000.
set-image(filename="Nothing.jpg")
Slide 4: showing "Nothing.jpg", captioned "Nothing".
set-text(text="Nothing is a sign of death.")
Slide 4: text added.
end-deck()
The deck is finished (4 slides in all).
Found by description on Wikimedia Commons and Openverse: public domain, CC0, CC BY and CC BY-SA only. Neither Talkie nor the deck runner sees them; each is captioned with the filename its author chose.
# Transcript: 1 call to Talkie ## Call 1: llama-server, max_tokens 1600, temperature 0.35, seed 1930 (86.8 s) **User** ````text You are to make a slide deck by writing commands, one on each line. These are the commands: find-image(search-term="WORDS", filename="NAME.jpg") finds a picture of WORDS and keeps it under the name NAME.jpg. set-background(color="COLOUR") colours the whole slide, for example "navy", "ivory", "black" or "crimson". set-image(filename="NAME.jpg") shows a picture you have already found. set-text(text="WORDS") writes words at the bottom of the slide; set-text(text="") removes them. next-slide() finishes the slide and begins a new, empty one. end-deck() ends the deck; write it once, after the last slide. All the text messages must be meaningful when strung together: read one after another, from the first slide to the last, they should make one connected account. Write only commands. Make a slide deck about the sea. ```` **Talkie** ````text set-background(color="navy") set-text(text="The sea covers the greater part of the world.") next-slide() find-image(search-term="ocean waves", filename="Ocean waves.jpg") set-background(color="black") set-image(filename="Ocean waves.jpg") set-text(text="Its waves are raised by the wind,") next-slide() find-image(search-term="tide on the shore", filename="The tide.jpg") set-background(color="black") set-image(filename="The tide.jpg") set-text(text="and twice each day its tide rises and falls upon the shore.") next-slide() find-image(search-term="sailing ship", filename="A sailing ship.jpg") set-background(color="black") set-image(filename="A sailing ship.jpg") set-text(text="Upon its waters men have sailed ships since ancient times,") next-slide() find-image(search-term="lighthouse", filename="A lighthouse.jpg") set-background(color="black") set-image(filename="A lighthouse.jpg") set-text(text="guided at night by lighthouses upon the rocks.") next-slide() find-image(search-term="fishing boats", filename="Fishing boats.jpg") set-background(color="black") set-image(filename="Fishing boats.jpg") set-text(text="Fishermen draw from it a great harvest of fish,") next-slide() find-image(search-term="whale", filename="A whale.jpg") set-background(color="black") set-image(filename="A whale.jpg") set-text(text="and in its depths swims the whale, the largest of all creatures.") next-slide() find-image(search-term="storm at sea", filename="A storm at sea.jpg") set-background(color="navy") set-image(filename="A storm at sea.jpg") set-text(text="Yet for all our ships, the sea remains as wide and wild as ever.") end-deck() ```` **User** ````text Make a slide deck about why the sky is blue. ```` **Talkie (given, continued below)** ````text set-background(color=" ```` **Grammar the reply had to follow** ````text root ::= ([^\n]* "\n")* "end-deck()" ```` **Talkie's reply** ````text blue") find-image(search-term="the colour of the sky", filename="The blue sky."jpg) set-text(text="The blue sky is the colour of space.") next-slide() find-image(search-term="space", filename="Space.jpg") set-background(color="black") set-image(filename="Space.jpg") set-text(text="Space is boundless and empty.") next-slide() find-image(search-term="empty space", filename="Empty space.jpg") set-background(color="black") set-image(filename="Empty space.jpg") set-text(text="Empty space is a sign of nothingness.") next-slide() find-image(search-term="nothing", filename="Nothing.jpg") set-background(color="black") set-image(filename="Nothing.jpg") set-text(text="Nothing is a sign of death.") end-deck() ````