Chatgpt Story Tone
Howdy,
I decided to briefly resubscribe, you know do a bit of a look around the old block. Plus I wanted to make use of the custom gpts for a bit. I decided to input a story crafting that I've done a few times in the past, had to restart when threads got corrupt, got too long, or they switched models and weird stuff happened.
Essentially, I just wanted to see how the story tone works right now. Mostly curiousity. To keep in mind, I've done this one on multiple models in the past, all the way back to the old 3.5 days. To explain the story, it's essentially just an expansion with a few characters on a novel section, it's a really simple straightforward story. Frankly, it's probably rated G at best. I've never run into issues with it. The prompt I had for this, was fairly detailed, not super long, enough to give the original passage, a few paragraph or so length profiles for the characters, and the basic instructions.
Well, I used the new 5.5 since I heard it's supposed to be decent. I had both instant and thinking used. It did follow the instructions, technically. It still does that over spacing thing with writing, though a bit less of it than 5.2 did. But the tone of the writing was the most robotic shit I've ever read. It was so dull and boring. I tried to correct it, and it did no change. I looked at my personalization, and it's set to "friendly." That thing's tone made Tywin Lannister look like the friendliest and chillest dude in history. Honestly, with how much they've depreciated the ability to tell stories, they may as well remove it's ability to. It did a far worse job than the attempts that 3.5 did. Overall, on almost all functions I've used it for, it does worse than 3.5 ever did. I'll just have to make sure I do all the work I want with that custom gpt, because I'm back to cancelled after this, I wanted to see if they worked out the kinks, well I made myself a sucker again.