[jdietrich]

ChatGPT will write in essentially any style you ask it to. The default behaviour is an artifact of RLHF training and the hidden pre-prompt, not a reflection of the capabilities of the underlying model. A pre-prompt along the following lines will radically change the nature of the output: "You are a subject matter expert in x. You communicate in a terse, information-dense manner. You make clear, strong arguments without vacillation."

[famouswaffles]

Yeah Open AI, Anthropic etc are all intentionally making LLMs sound more robotic than they are capable of sounding. It's pretty awful because the effects it has on fiction writing is disastrous.