Gwern kind of did on the last post, providing a bunch of stories from a top review in context, but I didn’t really like the outcome.
I also have just played with these models a lot, including trying to get them to write stuff, evaluate writing (including its own writing), etc. and as of last gen no strategy I tried ended up with stuff I enjoyed; in fact, it all had problems in the same general family, which felt to me like a fundamental limitation of intelligence. It wasn’t smart enough to do anything other than fake it in a pretty shallow way, and creative prompting didn’t help.
Now, it can always be a skill issue with these things, and maybe so! But conversely, it took very little effort/skill tinkering with 4 Opus for me to be like “huh. time for a follow up post, I suppose”.
(Also, as an aside, I think a lot of flash fiction is spare specifically because being spare conveys more stuff with fewer words, though a lot of flash fiction is also dense for the reason you describe; I’m not sure if it’s bimodal or continuous but I’ve seen impressive examples of both. This piece is one of my favorite dense ones.)
Gwern kind of did on the last post, providing a bunch of stories from a top review in context, but I didn’t really like the outcome.
I also have just played with these models a lot, including trying to get them to write stuff, evaluate writing (including its own writing), etc. and as of last gen no strategy I tried ended up with stuff I enjoyed; in fact, it all had problems in the same general family, which felt to me like a fundamental limitation of intelligence. It wasn’t smart enough to do anything other than fake it in a pretty shallow way, and creative prompting didn’t help.
Now, it can always be a skill issue with these things, and maybe so! But conversely, it took very little effort/skill tinkering with 4 Opus for me to be like “huh. time for a follow up post, I suppose”.
(Also, as an aside, I think a lot of flash fiction is spare specifically because being spare conveys more stuff with fewer words, though a lot of flash fiction is also dense for the reason you describe; I’m not sure if it’s bimodal or continuous but I’ve seen impressive examples of both. This piece is one of my favorite dense ones.)