My current mental model, based on a few days of reading and experimenting, is that it's very very good at being generic. Given how it works, this makes a lot of

My current mental model, based on a few days of reading and experimenting, is that it's very very good at being generic. Given how it works, this makes a lot of sense. It can even do a good job of being generic in a variety of substyles (e.g. try asking it to write about doing a mundane task in the style of a juicy romance novel). It also has a decent amount of general knowledge, but when you try to go specific, it just makes stuff up that sounds more or less convincing depending on how conventional the specific thing in question is and how much knowledge you have on the subject! E.g. I bet it could say a lot of accurate stuff about gas stations in general. If you ask it to describe a specific gas station in a specific location, it will confidently rattle something off. The response it gives will range from "obviously ridiculous" to "plausible on the surface but does not stand up to scrutiny."