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by MacsHeadroom 1165 days ago
Yes, you're correct. People who complain that chatGPT is bland don't realize that they have to specify a style to not get the average of all content.

It's just like if you ask an image AI for a "woman" you will get the average of all artists women and it will look very generic and bland. But with the right stylistic qualifiers in your prompt you will get something so captivating that it wins awards for its creativity.
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froggychairs 1165 days ago
Prompting works very well, but I have still not seen any output from ChatGPT that captivated me in a way my favorite writing has.

I used to work in the field of creative text generation for fiction. I’m genuinely very curious and I go out of my way to find compelling examples. There is definitely “good” output that’s on the right track. GPT-4 also does way better, but it still falls short.

This is also difficult to just evaluate objectively. If you find that GPT models have generated the best prose you’ve seen. That’s wonderful! I understand that my standards are quite high (high does not equate to “better” either)

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MacsHeadroom 1164 days ago
Try this:

In 6 different tabs, ask chatGPT GPT-4 version "Write a 200 word prose about X in the style of Y which perfectly mimics their style and perspective and label it Prose A,B,C,D,E,F"

Then open a new chatGPT GPT-4 chat and ask "Rank the pieces of prose below on how much they sound like something X would write, then detail your reasoning."

Then read the winning prose and be surprised at how much better "best of N" is.

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And if that isn't enough, open two chatGPT GPT-4 windows side-by-side and prompt each with "You are Editor A/B. You will work with Editor B/A to make a piece of prose more accurately resemble authentic prose written by X"

Then give A the prose and copy its response to B. Copy their responses back and forth as they edit the prose.

After 5 or so back/forth it will be even more indistinguishable from the a genuine article.

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And if that's not enough, you can have all of this done automatically programmatically with the API so you can just sit back and get the final result with no more work than putting in the topic and author's name.

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