ChatGPT is certainly no good at a lot of aspects of storytelling, but I wonder how much the author played with different prompts.
For example, if I go to GPT-4 and say, “Write a short fantasy story about a group of adventurers who challenge a dragon,” it gives me a bog standard trope-ridden fantasy story. Standard adventuring party goes into cave, fights dragon, kills it, returns with gold.
But then if I say, “Do it again, but avoid using fantasy tropes and cliches,” it generates a much more interesting story. Not sure about the etiquette of pasting big blocks of ChatGPT text into Lemmy comments, but the setting turned from generic medieval Europe into more of a weird steampunk-like environment, and the climax of the story was the characters convincing the dragon that it was hurting people and should stop.
Yeah I remember when it GPT-3 first became available (before Chat) and people found that you could get better results by simply asking it to be better. Someone asked it to predict the end of a story, then tried again but told it to be a super genius instead and it did a much better job.
Like by default its predicting the output of an average person, but it also knows how to predict above average people.
Not sure about the etiquette of pasting big blocks of ChatGPT text into Lemmy comments
As a server owner of a different instance, text is infinitely less expensive to host than images. So I say go ham! It’s better than posting photos of the chatgpt convo. But I don’t know the beehaw mod team’s opinion on that.
ChatGPT is certainly no good at a lot of aspects of storytelling, but I wonder how much the author played with different prompts.
For example, if I go to GPT-4 and say, “Write a short fantasy story about a group of adventurers who challenge a dragon,” it gives me a bog standard trope-ridden fantasy story. Standard adventuring party goes into cave, fights dragon, kills it, returns with gold.
But then if I say, “Do it again, but avoid using fantasy tropes and cliches,” it generates a much more interesting story. Not sure about the etiquette of pasting big blocks of ChatGPT text into Lemmy comments, but the setting turned from generic medieval Europe into more of a weird steampunk-like environment, and the climax of the story was the characters convincing the dragon that it was hurting people and should stop.
Yeah I remember when it GPT-3 first became available (before Chat) and people found that you could get better results by simply asking it to be better. Someone asked it to predict the end of a story, then tried again but told it to be a super genius instead and it did a much better job.
Like by default its predicting the output of an average person, but it also knows how to predict above average people.
As a server owner of a different instance, text is infinitely less expensive to host than images. So I say go ham! It’s better than posting photos of the chatgpt convo. But I don’t know the beehaw mod team’s opinion on that.