Safety optimization has made general-purpose AI increasingly worse at creative work, and a new generation of models purpose-built for creative writing aims to solve that problem.
For some good news, I did notice a significant jump in quality between Claude Sonnet 4.6 and Sonnet 5.
The older version was flatter and more boring, and more reliant on external sources for interesting, imaginative ideas, whether human or via Grok.
Fable 5 improves on prose quality, cleanly synthesizing plots, and execution. My impression of its imagination is that it’s about on par with Sonnet 5.
So I went to Sunowrite and set up an account. It is clearly meant for women with that cutesy pink color scheme. It asks a lot of questions about what kind of writer you are (I chose professional, merely so I get the whole thing and not some watered down version), what genre, style, all the stuff you'd expect. Then I finally arrive at the start of the process and there's already a paragraph created before I've entered anything but the basics. Oookay. I ignore that and start putting stuff into the "Story Bible", boxes for Brain Dump, Genre, Style (chose one), Synopsis, and then Characters. You know what's coming, right? Click on Add Character, and take a wild, wild, guess at what the first box that describes the character? You know, right?
Che's one of several sexes that provide different inputs to the queen alien to produce offspring. The Chimales are specialized for computation, and they provide the initial memetic data, like an operating system.
Nolan is the wannabe trickster in this story.
For some good news, I did notice a significant jump in quality between Claude Sonnet 4.6 and Sonnet 5.
The older version was flatter and more boring, and more reliant on external sources for interesting, imaginative ideas, whether human or via Grok.
Fable 5 improves on prose quality, cleanly synthesizing plots, and execution. My impression of its imagination is that it’s about on par with Sonnet 5.
Are you using Sonnet via API or from Claude? From Claude, quality of prose is declining.
I was simply using it from claude.ai. And I've only used Sonnet and Fable; never bothered with Opus after Vox panned its quality.
Which is why we need our own specialist textual AI, obviously.
So I went to Sunowrite and set up an account. It is clearly meant for women with that cutesy pink color scheme. It asks a lot of questions about what kind of writer you are (I chose professional, merely so I get the whole thing and not some watered down version), what genre, style, all the stuff you'd expect. Then I finally arrive at the start of the process and there's already a paragraph created before I've entered anything but the basics. Oookay. I ignore that and start putting stuff into the "Story Bible", boxes for Brain Dump, Genre, Style (chose one), Synopsis, and then Characters. You know what's coming, right? Click on Add Character, and take a wild, wild, guess at what the first box that describes the character? You know, right?
Pronouns.
it's not entirely untoward for a prose writer to use pronouns.
A sane person would handle that with "Is character male or female?"
Che's one of several sexes that provide different inputs to the queen alien to produce offspring. The Chimales are specialized for computation, and they provide the initial memetic data, like an operating system.
Also there's a robot
Uuuuuuggghhh