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OpenAI’s ‘creative writing’ AI evokes that annoying kid from high school fiction club


OpenAI says it's trained an AI 'creative writer.' It kind of evokes that annoying kid from high school fiction club.

The most simultaneously unsettling — and impactful — part of the OpenAI model’s piece is when it begins to talk about how it’s an AI, and how it can describe things like smells and emotions, yet never experience or understand them on a deeply human level. The AIs suggested a cliché (“never-ending to-do list”), erroneously flipped the perspective from first person to third, and introduced a factual error relating to bird species. “When a majority of my students use generative AI for an assignment, I’ll find common phrases or even full sentences,” Taransky told TechCrunch.

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