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My take from using it a bit is that they seem to have genuinely innovated on: - Not writing things that go off in weird directions / staying grounded in "reali

My take from using it a bit is that they seem to have genuinely innovated on: - Not writing things that go off in weird directions / staying grounded in "reality" - Responding very well to tone preferences and catching nuance in what I say It seems like it's less that it has a great "personality" like Claude, but that it's capable of adapting towards being the "personality" I want and "understanding" what I'm saying in ways that other models haven't been able to do for me.

XenophileJKO 2y ago
So this kind of mirrors my feelings after using GPT-4.5 on general conversation and song writing. GPT picked up on unspecified requirements almost instantly. It is subtle (and may be undesirable in some contexts). For example in my songs, I have to bracket the section headings, it picked up on that from my original input. All the other frontier models generally have to be reminded. Additionally, I separately asked for an edit to a music style description. When I asked GPT-4.5 to write a song all by itself, it included a music style description. No other model I have worked with has done this. These are subtle differences, but in aggregate the model just generally needs less nudging to create what is required.
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- torginus 2y ago
  I haven't used 4.5 but have some experience using Claude for creative writing, and in my experience it sometimes has the uncanny ability to get to the core of my ideas, rephrasing my paragraph long descriptions into just a sentence or two, or both improving and concretizing my vague ideas into something that's insightful and tasteful. Other times it locks itself into a dull style and ignores what I ask of it and just produces boring generic garbage, and I have to wrangle it hard to get some of the spark back. I have no idea what's going on inside, but just like with Stable Diffusion, it's fairly easy to make something that has the spark of genius, and is very close to being perfect, but getting the last 10% there, and maintaining the quality seems almost impossible. It's a very weird feeling, it's hard to put into words what is exactly going on, and probably even harder to make it into a benchmark, but it makes me constantly flip-flop between scared of being how good the AI is, and questioning why I ever bothered with using it in the first place, as I would've progress much faster without it.

XenophileJKO 2y ago

So this kind of mirrors my feelings after using GPT-4.5 on general conversation and song writing. GPT picked up on unspecified requirements almost instantly. It is subtle (and may be undesirable in some contexts). For example in my songs, I have to bracket the section headings, it picked up on that from my original input. All the other frontier models generally have to be reminded. Additionally, I separately asked for an edit to a music style description. When I asked GPT-4.5 to write a song all by itself, it included a music style description. No other model I have worked with has done this. These are subtle differences, but in aggregate the model just generally needs less nudging to create what is required.

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torginus 2y ago
I haven't used 4.5 but have some experience using Claude for creative writing, and in my experience it sometimes has the uncanny ability to get to the core of my ideas, rephrasing my paragraph long descriptions into just a sentence or two, or both improving and concretizing my vague ideas into something that's insightful and tasteful. Other times it locks itself into a dull style and ignores what I ask of it and just produces boring generic garbage, and I have to wrangle it hard to get some of the spark back. I have no idea what's going on inside, but just like with Stable Diffusion, it's fairly easy to make something that has the spark of genius, and is very close to being perfect, but getting the last 10% there, and maintaining the quality seems almost impossible. It's a very weird feeling, it's hard to put into words what is exactly going on, and probably even harder to make it into a benchmark, but it makes me constantly flip-flop between scared of being how good the AI is, and questioning why I ever bothered with using it in the first place, as I would've progress much faster without it.