“A language model is a machine learning model that predicts the next word in a text. Industrial language models like GPT-3 power everything from search engines to iPhone keyboards. However, such models typically cost thousands of dollars to train, emitting untold amounts of CO2 in the process; their use in the arts is ethically questionable. I propose instead a radically small language model, trained on a low-power microcontroller, only when drawing sufficient energy from solar panels. I’ll use this model to produce computer-generated albas, a poetry genre in which lovers lament the oncoming dawn.”