GPT-4: Did I Just Unlock The Secret To AI Story Writing? - The Last of Us Edition

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Dive into the world of AI-powered storytelling as we explore GPT-4's potential to create human-level narratives! Can we finally unlock the secret to AI story writing?

Experience an exclusive alternative story of "The Last of Us," fully written by GPT-4, brought to life through stunning illustrations by Midjourney V5 and immersive narration by Eleven Labs.

Stick around after the story as we reveal the prompts and personas used to construct this captivating tale, shedding light on how we pushed GPT-4 to its creative limits.

00:00 GPT-4 AI Story Writing Intro
00:26 How to write a story with GPT-4

[DarkandTwisted]

I am a seasoned fiction writer, specializing in the thriller and drama genres. I have been writing for many years, and I must say that I am amazed by how well-written this story is. This just goes to show how outstanding ChatGPT-4 is and how much it has improved since version 3. The voices were the most realistic I have ever heard, and the photos were beautiful. I give this story 5 stars. I would love to hear more of it and also watch more of the creative process. 👍

[luiswebdev]

Here are the prompts so you don't have to write them:

Let's talk about building a story or book and the concept of showing not telling

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Let's also talk about importance of very slow development character building and not rushing the main plot but slowly building the story arc

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Here is your new persona and role: you are a {Genre} author. Your task is to write {Genre} stories in a rich and intriguing language with a very slow pace building the story. Answer with “Ok” if you acknowledge.

Genre = Emotional Thriller

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Here is the story template:

Title: …

Main Plot: …

Protagonist 1: [Joel, age and occupation as well as a brief description of their personality and motivations]

Protagonist 2: [Ellie, …]

Author Style: Use a rich and intriguing language

Dialogue: dialogue heavy

Theme: emotional, mystery, thrilling

Tone: [ insert the desired tone for the story and the instructions for maintaining consistency and appropriateness to the setting and characters]

Pacing: very slow build up of the story in depth character development and World building

Story length: full book

Fill out the template above for a {Genre} story

Genre = Emotional Thriller

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Built a detailed story outline for a chapter 1 of 12 from the factors above, focus on showing not telling and the slow arc for the book

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Now write chapter 1 like it is a full book (about 2, 000 words), with focus on showing not telling and very slow buildup with character development, World building and heavy dialogue

[Djorgal]

I'm amazed by the voice quality. It's even adapting to which character is talking. Changing tone according to Ellie softly muttering and Joel's gruffness. I wouldn't mind listening to an audiobook with this voice.

[GenderPunkJezebelle]

Another thing you can do is instruct it to build scenes for each point in the outline. I spent a while getting it to understand the difference between a concrete event and a narrative summary, then have it suggest a location and an event corresponding to each point in the outline. It takes generate 1 scene at a time, but you can control length, pacing and character development pretty well. The biggest problem I have with longer stories is the context window; GPT-4 will lose the thread of a story and start changing significant details once the story exceeds its context window. My work-around is to periodically feed it summaries of what's happened so far and the major characters' relationships, but it's still a problem once the summaries reach more than like 1000 words.

[eriklarsen]

having played around with it for a few weeks, one thing i do notice is that if you ask it to do a chapter based on its own outline, the first one is usually pretty good, but if you do a consequent chapter or chapters, it tends to re-use descriptions and will often forget what just happened in the previous scene. I had it do 5 chapters and every one begins with some sort of light coming through an object (trees, windows, clouds, etc...). I even had to tell it NOT to use sunlight as a description after a couple of chapters. I really believe that it isn't intelligent at all, and is just using its language parsing and token skills to formulate a single written piece... it really doesn't seem to be able to string together contiguous chapters into a long form story. Or at least i haven't found the right prompts yet...

[Naranek]

That's absolute incredible. This slow emotion driven built up and the visual style of description is incredible. And to the ones who want to write on their own, no one says that you have to leave it that way, you can still modify things manually and add your thoughts. I'm really amazed by this results so far. I love ChatGPT 4, it's just so much better then v3.5

[CharlesAlvis]

I am interested on what you used for AI narration. That voice is one of the better ones that I've heard.

[jakec]

Wow! I'm already hooked on this story. It was so well-done and well-told. It feels like a professionally narrated story from a best selling author! Keep up the awesome work. I'd love to see where this goes.

[topmandan]

Massive fan of your work. I attempted to create a personal copy of a new book from the "hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy" series as the author ( Douglas Adams) passed away in 2001. It finally made 7 chapters, but it was so hard to slow the pace of ChatGPT. I figured that we are probably just months away from this being very easy in the next version anyway. After watching this, I will revisit the book with your tips in mind. Keep up the great channel.

[bacdi]

I can see how much work you put into these prompts. Thank you! Could you make a video of you writing an entire 30K word book? Would love to see that.

[GarthBauch]

This was great. BTW - I signed up for your PDF from a couple different emails and never received it. Just FYI. Can you post a link to it here?

[fliu]

This is crazy. Speechless. Can you do one on "Sigularity"? It is the "runaway" effect of A.I. We are running toward there, like it or not. You can't stop it.

[riversplitter]

This was really nice. A huge improvement! I bet if you tell it to end on a cliffhanger leading to the next chapter your ending will be better.

[trevorama]

That was excellent! I’m a professional writer, and I was impressed. I was also hoping you’d touch on your process for getting the consistent characters, etc., in Midjourney.

[nicole-janine]

As a voice talent, I must say, the voice is already quiet good, although I miss some soul and the ability to build up tension slowly. But maybe after some more years, people will not miss soul at all, because they will forget what it was like.

[skipfoster]

Love it! As I was listening I was shocked how slow it was building the characters. I'm glad you showed how you did that in the instructions at the end.

[KooqsAI]

Love it. The plot moved slowly, which was nice. I think a bit more drama and suspense. For example, the part where Joel sat around the fire did seem to be as dangerous and threatening as I would have liked, but it was okay.
I love the whole concept of video books.
Looking forward to the next chapters.

[JPatrickT]

I’ve found the same need to limit the scope (yours: just write ch 1) of the requested text, regardless of genre. The “rushing through” you point out must be a feature of something built in. So if we want it to write a resume, or syllabus, or narrative, the results are much more developed/ detailed if we just ask it to write the parts and combine to the whole.

[Kailamptey]

That was an expert start. It was actually reminiscent of my favourite book start "the man without qualities". Engaged all the senses. Got a bit cheesy at the end, same as chatgpt, but from experience it's actually quite hard not to cheese it up at the end, if you want some finality.

[WestCoastLf]

This is the best way to go about it in my opinion. Too many think there's some magic prompt you can type in when the greatest thing about Chat-GPT is its ability to understand and reference your entire conversation (up to a certain point, but honestly is quite a bit and will only improve). Therefore, the real "prompt" is your ability to develop context and narrow in focus via conversation. Also by doing this you can test to see if GPT understands a topic/concept in the way you want before prompting it to perform an action. Otherwise, your results could be getting skewed due to misunderstanding. If you mention something a bit abstract, you can tell GPT what you mean by it and GPT will go based of the definition/explanation you provide. Truly powerful and allows for much more nuance than some generalized prompt.

(TL;DR: Your conversation is the "prompt")