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. (Don’t copy/paste, which sometimes introduces formatting errors, just type it)

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.

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TREMBLE MORTALS, AND DESPAIR!

FOR I, LORD CONSPICUOUS, ENEMY TO ALL FANDOMKIND, HAVE RISEN ONCE MORE TO DOCUMENT MY ETERNAL WAR AGAINST ANIME.

YES, I WILL RISE UP TO CHALLENGE THE MIGHT, OF THAT ONE SHOW ABOUT LITTLE GIRLS EVERYONE KEEPS TALKING ABOUT.

I speak of course, of Puella Magi Madoka Magica. That one show with all the magic.

So here I will detail everything that will happen in my war against a bunch of teenage girls, and how they will soon be crushed underneath my massive boot, their frilly dresses shred to pieces, because only one of us is worthy of wearing them.