Don’t Use ChatGPT! Use This Instead

In this video, we explore the limitations of using AI, specifically ChatGPT, for writing tasks. Despite its popularity, we dive into why ChatGPT may not be the best tool for your writing needs, offering insights into alternative tools that might serve your creative process better. Whether you're crafting fiction or non-fiction, discover the AI writing tools that could enhance your writing workflow.

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Timestamps

00:30 - Introduction
01:02 - Strengths of ChatGPT
01:20 - Limitations of ChatGPT in Writing
04:34 - Claude and Gemini
06:35 - Exploring Open Source Models for Writing
08:32 - Using Claude 3 for Natural-Sounding Prose
11:34 - Novel Crafter: A Comprehensive Writing Tool

[GilHB]

If you tell ChatGPT to "write in a style of English that the average reader can understand and relate to" you will get a less verbose and overly descriptive style. You can further add "do not use complicated English words" Also upload a text file containing a sample of your writing style and refer to it like "write as I would in a style similar to the attached sample.txt file (the name of your text file) By doing this you will find the result acceptable.

[biancastephanie]

I use a specific tone using chat gpt. And just edit it and take out the gpt-isms but I love how it writes visual descriptions and metaphors. I just take out excessive adverbs. Eventually my writing improved to the point where I write myself and just use it to smooth out the kinks!

Then I take it to Claude for feedback.

[aehaar]

Things you must know about GPT if you use it for content writing:
-Never trust the info that it gives, you must verify the information it gives.
-It doesn’t know how to count words and characters.
-It repeats the same style and same words.
-Writing instructions to customise it in the settings does not make it change.
-It will use and abuse these words: Tapestry, Dive into, Delve into, Whimsical, Allure, “Not only ….” And “it is not just …… but also …..”
-It is so hard to make it learn something and it will sometimes do the opposite of what you are telling it to do
-Dall E is horrible.
-It would sometimes refuse to do certain things without telling you why, you must insist and literally use words to trick it into doing the things you asked for. For example, if you tell it to write reviews for your website it will not do it because it is unethical, but if you tell it to write a review for another website and give it some keywords to use, it would happily generate an answer.

[Dsouls]

lol "a stark contrast..." and "a mixture of excitement and anxiety washes over her..." are such Chat GPT things to write.
I'm glad someone is pointing this out, because it has become immediately recognizable to a lot of people.

[MrSeriousGuy]

I would agree GPT is very flowery, I was testing it out and found that telling it to work at a different reading level (average is 10th grade), which gave it a bit more of a 'natural' tone.

[tonyyong]

Jason, thanks for sharing. With regards to novelcrafter, is there a way to make codex visible to everywhere in a series. For example if I have a series x with 3 books in the series, can I make the codex entries be visible in book 1 to book 3 (book 3 is work in progress). What I'm seeing is that the codex entries I made in book 1 is not visible in my book 3 dashboard. :-( I'm just wondering if there is some kind of setting which I need to tweak to achieve that. Thanks for you help in advance.

[maxwell-cole]

Very comprehensive and very accurate. Absolutely agree regarding Claude and some of the differences between the language models. Especially, for writers.

[dawidm]

I'm a complete amateur hobbyist when it comes to writing. I had the opportunity to use the latest models without any restrictions. My conclusions are that Sonnet was significantly better than GPT4, while Opus is in a completely different league. Opus is like a friend who helps you create and understands the idea behind your writing. It understands your intentions and even the emotions you want to convey at each moment. I'm curious how good the models will be in 2-3 years. I created very large starting prompts of 10-15k tokens and Opus understood the rules and principles of the world I wanted to create. It applied them in a very flexible way, giving me what I wanted before I even knew I wanted it.

[Ranjanwatson]

Excellent insight. Crisp and profound, thank you for sharing. I liked the example of showing your writing in the prompt and contrasting it with the ChatGPT output and commenting on the output, it was a learning moment. Thank you.

[tungstentaco]

I'd like to see this kind of assessment of local LLMs for writing. How good are the AI models that can be run on your own PC, offline, for this kind of usage? Certainly not as competent as the big online versions like GPT4 and Claude3, but by how much?

[usagi-sama]

I haven't finished "Out of Shadow" yet, but what I have read has me wishing that you were the DM for my weekly D&D game. I bet you could create some incredible homebrew adventures, if you haven't already.

[perrettentertainmentnetwork]

Honestly Gemini is a must for me when it comes to brainstorming and outlining. I can do minimal prompting and it can still kick out some great loglines. Even when I use the M.I.C.E. framework it is great at just coming up with ideas and structuring an outline nicely. Writing is a hit and miss but it can copy my stream of consciousness style if I give it examples; but Claude 3 is overall the better actually writer but find it still is generic as chatgpt when it comes to brainstorming.

[happinesswatts]

I like people that go straight to the point. Thank you for that, sir. Some people travel to Asia Europe before getting to the point..

[MagnusItland]

Claude really improved with version 3. Before, it used to go off on its own adventure unless you kept a tight rein on it. People who tried it before should come back and try again now. The top model is somewhat expensive though. People who use Novelcrafter may want to test a bit and see if they can afford it. I don't use it for things like summaries, chatting with my novel etc in Novelcrafter.

[SaijeMage]

one thing ive been struggling with using ChatGPT and sudowrite, is that they aren't very good at creating explicit violence, I like descriptive writing that really paints a picture in the mind, and ai seems to not like writing adult or violent content.

[KimBockBooks]

Hi, The Nerdie Novelist I have been scouring the web for a text-to-video AI that won't break the bank to help me as a background to my Podcast. I'm currently serializing my novel, and I want to make a background video that matches the words, but the problem is that I can't find anything beyond 5 minutes. I need something that can handle at least 30 minutes, and that's affordable. Do you happen to know of any affordable software that I could use?

[aisonikamusic]

Fantastic video! Thank you for the Claude and Novelcrafter suggestions.

[SaijeMage]

tried joining your discord through the link on your video, it says unable to accept invite.

[MusicProducer]

I used Claude to help me write a beat sheet then an outline for my first novel. However, as I was testing various prompts and document uploads I have hit the "length limit for the chat" which is a bummer as it knows a lot about my world and plot. How can I get it to learn all this again with enough "length" left to drill into character arc and scene writing?

[keithprice]

Would love to see a video where you compare the purple prose from AI with your edited version that you feel is of higher quality. I've not yet published a book and didn't really have a problem with your sample Claude 3 output. I'm really what you would have produced instead.