OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said the company has developed a new model that is "very good" at writing fiction. He posted a short story about AI and grief that the new model generated.
"we trained a new model that is good at creative writing (not sure yet how/when it will get released)," Altman writes, "this is the first time i have been really struck by something written by AI; it got the vibe of metafiction so right."
Writing fiction is an unusual direction for OpenAI to take its AI to. The company has previously focused mostly on more predictable areas like math and programming. Its experiments with writing could be a sign that OpenAI believes its new generation of models will greatly improve its text processing.