We’ve been talking about the “blandness” of ChatGPT’s attempts at creative writing.
These are a flaw of ChatGPT, not a flaw of the more basic language models that underlie ChatGPT.
Do you want to see how good this technology is at creative writing – when it doesn’t have ChatGPT’s weird add-ons? Here’s how:
- Register an account at https://beta.openai.com/, if you don’t already have one.
- Go to the playground, and select “code-davinci-002” from the Model dropdown. This model is free, so you don’t need to pay anything.
- Set “Temperature” to 1 instead of 0. Make sure you do this.
- Type the following into the prompt box:
A novel
Chapter 1(This is just a suggestion, of course you can and should try other things. Try including a title, for example, or even write the start of the chapter yourself if you want.)
- Press Submit.
- Read.
The first version of this post had the recommended in a blockquote.
Apparently if you copy/paste blockquoted text into OpenAI’s prompt box, it puts a bunch of spaces in front of the words to indent them – which gives you much worse results in this case. *facepalm*
Just type the words in a normal way:
