[gallopingcomp]

> Creative writing

I tried to get it to write _1984_ erotic fanfiction, which it did - but everything it spewed out was a cliche. I imagine it had read all of FFN and AO3.

> gathering information

It will probably be like the Google infoboxes and “People Also Search” entries we’ve had for a while, only more superficially coherent.

It seems like the “fake it until you make it” craze has fully taken over the AI/ML scene.

[kingkawn]

it produced cliche because of the cliche quality of the prompt. You can’t expect it to be original when you’ve asked it for a tiresome combination of genre and a canonical work.

If the outputs are boring it ain’t chatgpt at fault…

[silveroriole]

I don’t know the technical details of chatgpt but other language models have a sort of randomness tuning that makes them produce more unlikely stuff. Chatgpt appears to be deliberately tuned to produce very likely, very cliche, very rote output. Great for bloggers or people who want text summaries or boring professional content, not great for creativity. It’s not a ‘fault’ of chatgpt per se but it a consequence of chatgpt’s intentions, not the user’s.

[gallopingcomp]

It would seem that, when you try too hard at being creative, chatgpt usually just loses it completely - in my experience, it often starts falling back on even worse cliches, or it stops making sense altogether. (Or it might just time out.)

[sshine]

Actually, ‘cliche’ is an extremely good evaluation:

It is assessing the quality of the output as if a human had made it. Most of human writing is cliche. Expecting it to produce good output is, as you say, a matter of prompt engineering.