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Re:GPT-3 Creative Fiction by pmoriarty on Thursday April 20, 2023 @08:00AM (#35638721)
I've found Anthropic's Claude[1] to be far better for creative writing than GPT4 and even Claude+

[1] - https://poe.com/Claude-instant

Re:GPT-3 Creative Fiction by hello_hny on Thursday April 20, 2023 @03:23PM (#35644936)
Since when do you feel like this? I tested Turbo-Claude a month ago and wasn't impressed
Re:GPT-3 Creative Fiction by pmoriarty on Thursday April 20, 2023 @05:51PM (#35646894)
I don't know what "Turbo-Claude" is, but, like I said, in my experience Claude+ is worse than plain Claude (aka "Claude-Instant") at writing creative works.
Re:GPT-3 Creative Fiction by antifa on Thursday April 20, 2023 @03:25PM (#35644971)
I'd like to be presented with more information before a random website demands my phone number.
Re:GPT-3 Creative Fiction by pmoriarty on Thursday April 20, 2023 @05:49PM (#35646863)
You don't have to give it your phone number. All you need is an email.
Re:GPT-3 Creative Fiction by gwern on Thursday April 20, 2023 @08:09PM (#35648239)
I really need to try Claude, but, well, so much to keep up with these days... FWIW, I've found that GPT-4 in the Playground is pretty good at creative text compared to ChatGPT-3, with a bit of prompting. It's still sometimes inflexible, but mostly works. (GPT-4 inherits a lot of the weaknesses of GPT-3 for creative text, unfortunately; you can fool yourself into thinking that it's genuinely learned to rhyme or what phonetics are, but underneath, it's still the same BPE-flaws.)

I am still working on some projects there - I'm most excited about an experiment into translating John Milton's _Paradise Lost_ into contemporary alliterative English verse, using an inner-monologue approach to revise it line by line repeatedly: https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/12pqqg6/di... Sample of intro 'translation': https://pastebin.com/WmHKD9RP

GPT-4 suggested titling it _Perished Paradise_, and I rather like it. :)