Written by Talkie, fast model · 6 slides · 27 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.
Versions: v1 (this) → v2
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="windmills")
That instruction could not be carried out: color must be a colour name such as "navy" or "ivory", or a hex code such as "#1b2a5a"; got 'windmills'
set-text(text="Windmills turn in every breeze.")
Slide 1: text added.
next-slide()
Slide 1 is finished. Now working on slide 2.
find-image(search-term="sails", filename="Sails.jpg")
Saved "Sails.jpg": Sails in art (before 1915)
set-background(color="black")
Slide 2: the background is now #000000.
set-image(filename="Sails.jpg")
Slide 2: showing "Sails.jpg", captioned "Sails".
set-text(text="They catch the breeze and turn to it.")
Slide 2: text added.
next-slide()
Slide 2 is finished. Now working on slide 3.
find-image(search-term="vanes", filename="Vanes.jpg")
Saved "Vanes.jpg": William Vane, 1st Duke of Cleveland (1820)
set-background(color="black")
Slide 3: the background is now #000000.
set-image(filename="Vanés.jpg")
Slide 3: "Vanés.jpg" will be found when the slide is finished, to suit its words; it will be captioned "Vanés".
set-text(text="They show which way the wind blows.")
Slide 3: text added.
next-slide()
Saved "Vanés.jpg": Identificatie Titel(s): Portret van Charles William Vane gekleed als Charles William Stewart The Marquess of Londonderry (titel op object) Objecttype: prent... (1841) Slide 3 is finished. Now working on slide 4.
find-image(search-term="weathercocks", filename="Weathercocks.jpg")
Saved "Weathercocks.jpg": The Emperor of China (left) reclines on a mattress on a low dais, smoking a long pipe and contemptuously watching, out of his slit-like eyes, Lord Macartney,... (1792)
set-background(color="black")
Slide 4: the background is now #000000.
set-image(filename="Weathercocks.jpg")
Slide 4: showing "Weathercocks.jpg", captioned "Weathercocks".
set-text(text="They tell the points of the compass.")
Slide 4: text added.
next-slide()
Slide 4 is finished. Now working on slide 5.
find-image(search-term="the miller", filename="The miller.jpg")
Saved "The miller.jpg": Rear view of houses in Windmill Street, Millers Point [Rocks Resumption photographic survey] Dated: Year only 01/01/1901 Digital ID: 4481_a026_000081 Rights:... (1901)
set-background(color="black")
Slide 5: the background is now #000000.
set-image(filename="The miller.jpg")
Slide 5: showing "The miller.jpg", captioned "The miller".
set-text(text="He grinds corn into meal.")
Slide 5: text added.
next-slide()
Slide 5 is finished. Now working on slide 6.
find-image(search-term="the sails", filename="The sails.jpg")
Saved "The sails.jpg": 1920 photograph of "First Year Yankee" Babe Ruth as he watches the ball sail into the seats. (1920)
set-background(color="black")
Slide 6: the background is now #000000.
set-image(filename="The sails.jpg")
Slide 6: showing "The sails.jpg", captioned "The sails".
set-text(text="And the meal feeds men.")
Slide 6: text added.
end-deck()
The deck is finished (6 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 (44.7 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 windmills. ```` **Talkie (given, continued below)** ````text set-background(color=" ```` **Grammar the reply had to follow** ````text root ::= ([^\n]* "\n")* "end-deck()" ```` **Talkie's reply** ````text windmills") set-text(text="Windmills turn in every breeze.") next-slide() find-image(search-term="sails", filename="Sails.jpg") set-background(color="black") set-image(filename="Sails.jpg") set-text(text="They catch the breeze and turn to it.") next-slide() find-image(search-term="vanes", filename="Vanes.jpg") set-background(color="black") set-image(filename="Vanés.jpg") set-text(text="They show which way the wind blows.") next-slide() find-image(search-term="weathercocks", filename="Weathercocks.jpg") set-background(color="black") set-image(filename="Weathercocks.jpg") set-text(text="They tell the points of the compass.") next-slide() find-image(search-term="the miller", filename="The miller.jpg") set-background(color="black") set-image(filename="The miller.jpg") set-text(text="He grinds corn into meal.") next-slide() find-image(search-term="the sails", filename="The sails.jpg") set-background(color="black") set-image(filename="The sails.jpg") set-text(text="And the meal feeds men.") end-deck() ````