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Watch out, fiction writers. OpenAI may have you in its crosshairs.<\/p>\n
In a post on X<\/a> on Tuesday, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said that the company has trained a \u201cnew model\u201d that\u2019s \u201creally good\u201d at creative writing. He posted a lengthy sample from the model given the prompt \u201cPlease write a metafictional literary short story about AI and grief.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cNot sure yet how\/when [this model] will get released,\u201d Altman said, \u201c[but] this is the first time I have been really struck by something written by AI; it got the vibe of metafiction so right.\u201d<\/p>\n Writing fiction isn\u2019t an application of AI that OpenAI has explored much. For the most part, the company has been laser-focused on challenges in more rigid, predictable fields like math and programming. That it\u2019s experimenting with writing could suggest OpenAI feels its latest generation of models vastly improve on the wordsmithing front. Historically, AI hasn\u2019t proven to be an especially talented essayist<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n