- Openai CEO, Sam Altman, has shared a metafiction -novelle written by AI
- He claims that the new chatgpt Creative Writing Model is the best AI writing he has ever read
- There is no time frame for when this new AI model will be launched to the public, but should it even exist?
Openai CEO Sam Altman says the company is working on a new chatgpt model that is good at creative writing and marks the first time he is “really hit by something written by AI.”
The new Chatgpt model does not have a name or a release plan, but Altman clearly believes that this new creative writing tool can review the way we use AI to write fiction.
In his post on X, Altman shared a full metafiction literary map written by Chatgpt about AI and Grief. The story itself is, to say the least, Bisarr and takes on tropes of creative writing to generate a work that AI finds metafictional. The opening section reads, “Before we move on, I have to admit that this comes with instructions: be metafictive, be literary, be about AI and grief and above all be original. Already you can hear the limitations that hum like a server yard at midnight – anonymous, regimented, driven by someone else’s needs.”
Until this time, AI’s ability to write creatively has always given a kind of soul-stylistically-violent attempt to recreate what chatgpt finds from its training, and while Altman’s example is definitely an improvement compared to asking Chatgpt 4o to do the same, it asks the question of, why would I even have that AI will try creative writing?
We trained a new model that is good for creative writing (not yet sure how/when it will be released). This is the first time I was really hit by something written by AI; It got the mood of metafiction so right. Prompt: Write a metafictive literary short story …March 11, 2025
Creative writing without creativity
As AI finds its way into all aspects of our lives, the constant pushing and drag between how much we want of artificial intelligence becomes more and more prominent. Creative industries have wrinkled over the use of AI, from films such as Oscar-nominated the brutalist who comes under fire for its use of software to improve the Hungarian dialect, to the taboo by using AI for journalism of all kinds.
As a person who writes for a living, I only use AI tools to have reasons to write about them, be it pitting Deepseek against chatgpt for research or using Apple Intelligence to create emojier. It would never cross my mind to use chatgpt to write an article or to think creatively for me as the reason I am able to work as a journalist is because I have struck myself in skills that make me talented to do it.
This example of Chatgpt’s creative writing sparks fears in creative industries and causes writers to hope that the public can wipe out the waste from the words they pour their soul into.
With tools like notebooklm that already create AI podcasts that cannot be distinguished from human-created are improvements to Chatgpt’s writing skill and an ability to think creatively from a prompt is the next step in making those of us who write as a job to have even more disdain for AI.
Chatgpt’s new creative writing model is impressive, but it completely misses the point of why creative writing even exists in the first place so people can pour their feelings and ideas into words. Who knows if we will ever see a commercial version of what Altman shared on X, but I hope, as hell, hope we don’t.
