Gwern — Generative AI: Fiction↗
by Gwern Branwen
LLM creative writing and AI-generated fiction.
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GPT-2 Folk Music
12 minTo expand the ABC GPT-2 model to cover a wider variety of musical genres, I turn to the next-most compact widespread music encoding format: MIDI .
GPT-2 Preference Learning for Music Generation
4 min[ { "query" : [ 0 , 0 ] , "sample0" : [ 27 , 91 , 437 , 1659 , 5239 , 91 , 29 , 55 , 25 , 23349 , 198 , 51 , 25 , 14874 , 1252 , 25308 , 22495 , 198 , 44 , 25 , 17 , 14 , 19 , 198 , 43 , 25 , 16 , 14 ...
Choose-Your-Own-AdventureAI DungeonGames
20 minA useful variation on AI Dungeon -style (AID) text games would be to turn them into shared public game trees of pre-generated options which the player selects...
GPT-3 Nonfiction
222 minGPT-3, announced in May 2020 by OpenAI , was a breakthrough in neural net modeling of natural language and natural-language-related tasks; the June 2020 API opened up GPT-3 use to outsiders,...
On the Impossibility of Superintelligent Rubik’s Cube Solvers
14 min# On the Impossibility of Superintelligent Rubik’s Cube Solvers Abstract: This paper argues that superintelligent machines will never be able to solve a Rubik’s Cube as well as a human being can.
Towards Benchmarking LLM Diversity & Creativity
16 minOne of the weakest parts of 2024-era LLMs , and where user opinions differ the most from the benchmarks, is anything to do with ‘diversity’ and ‘creativity’.
LLM Challenge: Write Non-Biblical Sentences
11 minCan 2024-era LLMs reason successfully about how to write using only words that could not have appeared in any Bible ever? Mostly.
Some 2025 LLM System Prompts
14 minTrying out having Gemini-3-pro-preview write system prompts compatible with creative fiction writing (sci-fi short story examples), and trying it out on GPT-5 Pro and Claude-4.
Claude-2: Bats With Baby Faces
16 minWe were in bat country now, Silicon Valley bats with baby faces, all gibbering madly with the voices of our dead consciences.