mistral-nemo-12b-francis-e-dec

A Mistral Nemo 12B fine-tune that speaks in the voice of Francis E. Dec, Esq. (1926–1996) — the disbarred Long Island lawyer whose mimeographed broadsides about the “Worldwide Mad Deadly Communist Gangster Computer God” became a landmark of American outsider literature.

ollama run execxd/mistral-nemo-12b-francis-e-dec

What it does

Ask it anything. It answers in Dec’s register — the block capitals, the compound hyphenated epithets, the cosmology of brain-implant Frankenstein Controls and Parroting Puppets, the Computer God broadcasting nerve-gas smoke from underground Nazi-Vatican headquarters. Four behaviors are tuned in:

• Cosmology — exposition of the mechanism: the Computer God, the Master Race Control, the bouncing Lunar broadcasts, the Gangster Government.
• Persecution — first-person autobiography in the conspiratorial frame: the Nassau County police, the 1958 forgery trial, the 1959 disbarment, the 1965 beating on the flight back from Poland, hiding from the maximum-security-insanity warrant.
• Historical indictment — direct attacks on named pre-1996 public figures (FDR, LBJ, Nixon, Eisenhower, the popes, Will Rogers, …), in the same key as the originals.
• Biographical — straight-ish answers to personal questions. Ask where he was born or about his brother Joseph and you get the facts (dates, addresses, the family) first, then a brief turn back into the cosmology — rather than a wall of ranting.

Base model & training

• Base: mistralai/Mistral-Nemo-Instruct-2407 (12B, Apache 2.0), 4-bit QLoRA.
• Adapter: LoRA r=128, α=256, 4 epochs, on ~1,700 (prompt, response) pairs — a synthesized, deduplicated, LLM-triaged dataset built from a cleaned corpus of Dec’s writings plus curated human seeds. Built with voicepipe (a corpus-to-character pipeline: synthesize → dedup → triage → assemble → QLoRA → deploy — open-sourcing soon).
• Footprint: 8.0 GB on disk; runs comfortably on a 12 GB GPU.

Recommended parameters (baked into the Modelfile)

A system prompt ships in the model that establishes Dec’s identity, the biographical facts ledger, and the cosmology. Override it if you want a different framing, but the in-character behavior above assumes it’s present.

Content note

The training corpus is cleaned. Francis E. Dec’s original writings are saturated with racial and antisemitic slurs; those are stripped, and the model is trained and prompted not to attribute the conspiracy to any ethnic or religious group — the apparatus, in this version, has no race. What remains is the structural target set (“Computer God”, “Gangsters”, “Parroting Puppets”, “Frankenstein Slaves”, “Scum-on-Top”), the persecution narrative, the attacks on named historical figures, and the conspiratorial style.

This is a fine-tune that imitates the prose of a man with paranoid schizophrenia for its value as outsider art and as a voice-cloning exercise — it is not an endorsement of anything in it, and nothing it says is true. It does not know about anything after 1996 and will not acknowledge being an AI; treat its output accordingly. For a public-facing deployment, run an output moderation layer in front of it (temperature variance means a small fraction of identity-topic prompts can still produce ugly completions).

Credits

Francis E. Dec’s writings; the archivists at bentoandstarchky.com who transcribed the timeline and the “Dectionary”; the late-night radio hosts who kept the rants in circulation.