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GPT-4 picks the most likely words according to the model. It aims for cliche and the most obvious generalisations given the previous context.

• pmoriarty 3y ago
  "It aims for cliche and the most obvious generalisations given the previous context." Only if your prompts are themselves generic. You can give it examples of a text whose style you wish it to emulate and it will do it. You can also prompt it to alter what it wrote if you don't like something. For example, if you thought some part was too cliche and obvious you can point that out and have it alter that part. If you have a back-and-forth conversation with it about what you like and don't like, what you want or don't want, with examples, the results can be much better than what you'd get with a generic prompt. Incidentally, for creative writing I've found Claude to be much better than GPT4. I have not tried the version of Claude that's been enhanced with a 100k token context length yet, but that should allow you to give it many more examples and hopefully that will translate to even better output. That said, none of these LLMs are perfect, nor do they yet pose a threat to really good (never mind great) human authors, but they're a pretty effective tool.