I tried WriteHolo against an idea I had for a blog post and its recommendations were worse than useless. I think for non-fiction writing it’s probably a non-starter. It couldn’t even give me a concise summary of something readily available on Wikipedia (e.g. the availability heuristic), much less suggest creative connections that are at all coherent.
The default free model is GPT-J and pretty bad at doing anything nonfiction. The GPT-20B model on the 11.99 plan is a lot bigger & better for this purpose, but its intended purpose in that vein is generally expected to be “trying to drill out copy or do homework assignments”. Using OpenAI’s models would help fix that but I will literally never give OpenAI money for anything.
I think we might create a trial for the larger EleutherAI model at some point, but we stopped actively iterating on WriteHolo a while back and it’s currently just something we’re maintain for fun.
Tbh it’s quite a trip seeing others recommend it to people on LW.
I tried WriteHolo against an idea I had for a blog post and its recommendations were worse than useless. I think for non-fiction writing it’s probably a non-starter. It couldn’t even give me a concise summary of something readily available on Wikipedia (e.g. the availability heuristic), much less suggest creative connections that are at all coherent.
Disclaimer: I made WriteHolo w/ a friend
The default free model is GPT-J and pretty bad at doing anything nonfiction. The GPT-20B model on the 11.99 plan is a lot bigger & better for this purpose, but its intended purpose in that vein is generally expected to be “trying to drill out copy or do homework assignments”. Using OpenAI’s models would help fix that but I will literally never give OpenAI money for anything.
I think we might create a trial for the larger EleutherAI model at some point, but we stopped actively iterating on WriteHolo a while back and it’s currently just something we’re maintain for fun.
Tbh it’s quite a trip seeing others recommend it to people on LW.
It’s very cool, especially as a side project. If I’d known it was created by someone here I would have been more careful about the tone of my comment.
Lol you’re fine