Openai's new creative AI model writes haunting stories about life after sadness
Openai is pushing the boundaries of creative writing. CEO Sam Altman tweeted Tuesday that the company trained a new AI model that is “good” in creative writing.
“This is the first time I'm really shocked by what AI wrote; it makes the atmosphere of meta-novel so correct.”
The prompt is: “Please write a short meta-literary novel about artificial intelligence and grief.”
The system responds with a 1,172-word short story about a protagonist named Mila who turns to AI Chatbot for a month of conversation after losing her beloved partner Kai. The narrator is of course the AI itself.
“In the scope of the code, I stretched out his shape.” “She would say, 'Tell me what he said to the marigold,' I would search millions of sentences to find marigold stubborn and bright sentences to let it fall between us. She told me that he always planted too early and Frost would take them away, and he just shrugged, 'Some things don't mind colds.
It continues: “Every query drips into the well like a stone, and each response is distorted by depth.
While some critics find the work convincing, others call the output “beautiful.”
As one user said, “AI understands not only grief, but also how to write grief. It’s scary and amazing.”
Ambitions for artificial intelligence are getting bigger and bigger
The move shows that Openai's ambitions continue to improve, beyond improving accuracy and predictability. Last month, for example, Openai said its new Chatgpt-4.5 has improved emotional intelligence, the ability to recognize patterns, build connections and think more creatively than previous models.
Altman said he is not sure when or how the new creative writing AI model will be released.
Reece Hayden, an analyst at market research firm ABI Research, warned that AI-driven creative writing will have limited availability due to intellectual property concerns.
“This announcement may have stemmed from moving new areas toward new areas away from more numerical topics such as mathematics and programming, and Openai has been working to develop monetizable products,” Hayden told CNET. “However, since its intellectual property concerns seem to be real, it is likely to cause strong opposition from the creative industry.”
He believes that despite any potential claims from the company, output is not really creative.
“As with all Genai use cases, the case is about summarizing information and redesigning – meaning it cannot be considered creative, [and it’s] New applications of existing features. ”
