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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Claude uses almost all of the same clunky phrases, more dependent clauses, and has only marginally less "flowery " language . I think it is better if you don't know what you want to write and are looking for the AI to riff off of your concept, but I would much rather have a model that will follow my instructions when I'm trying to write a specific scene or chapter.

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.

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

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?

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.

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..

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.

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.

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.

The Problem with Claude 3 is the pricing isn't Justified compared to ChatGpt, $20 a month you get custom GPTS, Art Generation, while Claude 3 has vision, far better writing, no custom. I just think if it was priced at 14.99 it would dominate

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

Where can I find your books?

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?

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.

What video camera are you using? Your video has vibrant colors and detailed sharpness.

As a avid reader, (future dream of being a writer) I can recognize AI writing if its been done with GPT, mostly because I tried it for a few weeks to see how it worked. I mean, it helped me get out of a few slumps with ideas. But, the style is very recognizable. lol (Just for fun, I had GPT rewrite what I wrote) As an enthusiastic reader with aspirations of becoming a writer, I've developed a keen eye for AI-generated content, particularly when it's produced using GPT. I dabbled with it for a few weeks out of curiosity, and while it certainly aided me in overcoming some creative slumps, its distinct style remains unmistakable. It's kind of amusing, really, how easily recognizable it is!

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.

All my prompts use the sentence “ensure it remains easy to read and understand” and every single time it gives me very human sounding replies. I’ve also since long accepted that it won’t write an entire book for you, as it shouldn’t, or even a chapter. I instruct it to write a few paragraphs at a time and build it from there, and Claude works excellent. Yes, it still requires a little editing, but fairly minimal, especially compared to others.

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

Is it possible to bring in already finished personal works to utilize for style? Would Novelcrafter be appropriate for fanfiction?

I found that ChatGPT gives me better prose when I tell him to use "simple words that are easy to read". I have to edit all its mannerisms anyway, "a testament of", "a mix of", "determination", etc.

My question is, is the Perplexity version of Claude as good? The GPT4 in Perplexity wasn’t as good at writing and chat as was ChatGPT in my tries. And in Copilot GPT4 was better than in ChatGPT.

He doesn't note what version of GPT he's actually using, because especially since the release of GPT-4o, there really is no comparison in the conversational quality. I honestly find GPT incredibly creative at times, and out of curiosity I ran your prompt thru GPT-4o and the response is much different than what was shown here, which is why I feel like that was GPT-3.5 or 4 at best. "I parked my cruiser as the first light of dawn peeked over the horizon. The engine's rumble died away, leaving me alone with the city's early morning hum. I checked the clock-5:47 AM. Too early for anything interesting, too late for more sleep. I sighed deeply, the kind that carries the weight of a hundred mundane shifts. The air was crisp, biting at my cheeks as I stepped out and stretched, feeling the familiar creak of my muscles. I took a deep breath, the scent of damp asphalt and distant coffee mingling with the lingering smell of exhaust." Clearly different models here.

Excellent videos thank you for the help and advice its very clear. I like writing people say i should write etc, any idea how to start especialy now AI can help with my gramar and spelling im ok with the words. I like putting a humar into every day situations lile being on a plane, i like the style of Clive James.

Do you have a recommendation for a non-fiction writer. I find Chat GPT hallucinations mean that I spend more time fact checking than it would take me to write the article manually. Even if I load specific data in the form of a .csv file by the end of it Chat GPT is either going out using other sources, making statistics up based on assumptions or a combination of both. Drives me nuts.

for novelcraft the specialist plan has "Shared Series & Universes" and "Collaborative writing" Can you explain that?

CHATGPT is the primary reason I hired a writing coach. Because of the things that this video is discussing. Word count has never once been accurate for me. SudoWrite is expensive, repetitive and inaccurate. I started with ai but I’m drifting away from ai.

I've now swapped over from ChatGPT to Claude3 and seeing good results, but Chat keeps defaulting to GPT-4 Turbo. Maybe it was something I originally setup, do you know how I can set the Chat default to Claude 3? Thanks

if the claude 3 llm is available thru openrouter and poe, what is the advantage of paying $20/mo through anthropic?

Claude is not available in Norway yet and as you share in the video, ChatGPT is not doing it for me. Any recommendations to use in combo with novelcrafter?

Here I am, an old dog, but newbie to AI …and learning! I do have four almost finished fiction novels (in Word…) siting at my HD for 10 years. Now, retired for some 8 years, want to revamp these and publish on Amazon KDP What would be the hint from you, experienced guys, to help me out in speeding up the process? Tks lot!

One of your better tutorials / informational vids. Thank you very much.

Thank you for a great video? Can Claude 3 be used to write children's books and scripts for cartoons?

You don't mention GPT-4 Turbo which I'm currently using in Novelcrafter, how does this compare with Claude 3?

Update to what I wrote below: seems Claude misunderstood my question--"are my chat sessions saved?" Claude's response: "Regarding our previous conversations, you are correct that they are not saved or persisted across sessions. Each conversation starts fresh, and I do not retain any memory of prior interactions. If you were told that sessions are not saved, that information was accurate." Then I noticed when I accessed Claude again, there was a list of our previous sessions, and when I opened them, the complete session is there for me to pick up. I asked Claude again, point out that I understood it couldn't access our other sessions for context, but to verify that it could reference any info within a single session so I didn't have to start from scratch. Then Claude said it could and apologized profusely. I mean, what good is a program if it's set up like a convenience store, in and out with no ability to generate new/updated responses based on aggregated information within that chat? I didn't think my question was that complicated. So much for its interpretative skills... One other thing: is there some way I haven't figured out yet to get chat to NOT respond until I'm finished "talking"'? I explain to it that I'm going to be writing a lot of info in individual chunks and to not respond until I'm finished. But each time I hit enter and continue with what I'm writing, it ignores my request to wait (I usually add wait until I say some code word) and starts jabbering away. My original comment: I've been using ChatGPT for about 6 months now. Your points about the prose is spot on. I haven't used it much for actually creating scenes or dialogue, mostly to check aspects like character motivation consistency, structure, various elements of writing. I just checked out Claude and was disappointed to find it doesn't save any of our conversations or sessions. Not sure how useful that will be.

how about use for technical writing?

With the exception of writers like J.R.R Tolkien and a few others that use exceptionally descriptive writing styles so you can virtually smell the moss on the rock. Have you ever tried telling ChatGpt to rewrite something as a Human Being, when you do it passes all the written by AI checkers. lol

Good day, what if you had a manuscript and you used Chat to rewrite Act 1 and fill in some gaps; and then you used Claude to do Act 2… Should I redo Act 1 in Claude?

the same in my case I switched from GPT4 into Claude 3 :)

i have done a lot of great work with GPT but it cant write like you did there. You would have to give it the scene already written then give it the directions then tell it to not use certain words. Like it loves to use the word 'stark' I just tell it not to use that word with a list of others and it is more down to earth. Or I have given it a paragraph and said to use the same style and continue writing and it does pretty good on this prompt but you need gpt4 i found 3.5 is never as good as 4

I'll switch from GPT4 to Claude as soon as they allow it in my country without needing a VPN or some third-party workaround.

Great information, many thanks

chatgpt 4 is great for working with excel sheets, is there something else better out there?

I genuinely like Claude's writing style unmodified. Soon as it gets voice I'm hopping the fence from GPT.

Question: Does claude 3 browse the internet like chatgpt 4o?

Hii, I'm your subscriber from India, Which one ai is Best for Travel agency website? Please reply on it?

What is the alternative?

What about transactions? I am working on a poetry book which I am translating from Spanish to English..

Claude is absolutely horid at following a prompt. Yah it sounds better off the rip, but I still save more time using chat and editing than trying to get Claude to follow directions.

@2:23 - ohhh, I'm glad you said "Day" and not "D" ...thought you were going somewhere else with that for a beat haha

Personally, I only use ChatGPT for peripheral tasks, such as outline creation with a custom prompt I made. I've long since stopped using it for the actual writing task.

4:40 its interesting because it really is, but it depends on how specific you get. The MAIN thing I have found Chat GPT beats all the other things at is... basic math and reasoning. Like you said its really good at following instructions. If you want to have an AI homework tutor I do not recommend anything other than Chat GPT, even the free version usually gets things right.

In my experence, Claude Instant is better for creative writing than GPT 4, Claude 2 or even Claude 3 Sonnet. I haven't tried Claude 3 Opus.

Am writing program alot with chat gpt, still the best for me, have tried another AI but got me up set for losng context when too much codes or different programing language involve

so...a little bit off topic but is it okay to use this bot to help me make some books for profit? i'm in a tight spot atm where i can't find any jobs or anything else that won't take years or alot of money to invest into it. i only have 3 months before i get kicked out so a month of work to get a livable income (or part time income as i do have a job at the current moment) would be fine for now but i don't want people to think i'm just using ai on everything (especially since i'm planning on animating for my yt channel which could take years to make a living off of) so would it be worth it?

Jimsworld San Diego said, "Assist me in rephrasing this narrative following my tailored guidelines (ChatGPT): At the break of dawn, a weary soldier meandered into a floral meadow. Every flower appeared to encapsulate a unique essence of beauty and tranquillity as if the earth offered a silent homage to the resilience of those who tread its paths. The soldier, whose heart was heavy with the burdens of battle, found an unexpected solace in the simple purity of the scene. With its vibrant hues and delicate form, each blossom seemed to whisper a message of hope and renewal directly to his soul."

Chat GPT also copy from websites from Google, how do I make it write something afresh without pasting from Google help, I will also check out Claude if it's free thanks

Claude 3 had better be better than normal free Claude. Normal free Claude refused to even give me a description of the Pale Man (?) from Pan's Labyrinth, claiming to feel "uncomfortable" talking about such "sensitive" and "disturbing" subjects. At least free ChatGPT did as I requested with no issues.

I haven't done anything with Minstrel large, I will have to give it a go. I know that Chat GPT or Claude Opus is very expensive on Open Router. I have been using Claude 3, although it gave me a refusal, I then entered the same thing, and it gave me what I wanted. I did thumbs down the refusal and complained. All because I wanted a gritty, dark outline. It could give me a PG-13 gritty, dark outline, and I could enhance it myself. But the refusals do get old. That being said, I do agree that Claude 3 is the best. I dropped Claude when it was Claude 2, and went with Chat GPT 4. But Claude 3 came out, and I went back. Claude still has a ways to go, but I am glad that it's better than 2.

The "twist of my wrist" part made me laugh.

I have a feeling the difference: claud 3 was trained on copyrighted professional work only, where GPT 4 was trained on FANFIC + copyrighted work. oh, and 'novel crafter' looks likes it's just setting the system prompt, you can basically create something like this with cut and paste, or if you don't want to cut/paste, you could make a webapp in a weekend that does the same thing.

What about copyright?

I've been playing with a fine-tuned GPT 3.5 model that I trained for use with Novelcrafter and I'm honestly rather shocked at some of what it produces... I haven't pushed it to test the limits, but on its own, it's generating some rather graphic violence (NOT part of my story, BTW, nor was that in the prompt... nor was anything like that in my source training data!) that I never expected to see from GPT. Stuff that I have no doubt would be flagged immediately by the OpenAI content filter API... It's consistently dark/edgy enough that I'm now using that FT model to create a synthetic data set (with manually curated scenes) to train a derivative model which will hopefully tone down the violent hallucinations... On another note, Claude 3 is available in Canada now, API access at least.. I just started using it this week with LibreChat. :)

What about technical writting?

Which one is the best for brainstorming story ideas and plotting?

if i use chatgpt wrting to publish on amazon kdp will it be detected??

But how you distinguish between text fully generated by AI and text just improved by AI

Can you make a video about novelcraft for no fixing book?

Don't tell me what to do.

Wherebu at google keynote ?

I agree and I have found Microsoft copilot is pretty much the same. I'd rather research myself and write unique as chatgpt even when you ask it to be more personalised info in a more human level it still writes the same stuff maybe slightly different as I find it frustrating

Thank you ❤

wat does purple mean?

If you write a chapter and you ask it to edit and finish it for you the melodrama is kept to a minimum.

That's how I would write it, I just love such fun meledramatic descriptions(old school). Besides, what kind of author is he who writes a novel using AI? Where is his imagination? Since English is not my first language, I use AI to translate, check grammar and spelling. And to create an outline of the situation. e.g. how special forces operate during operations. Then he describes it in his own style. Let's not be lazy, let's create our own, AI strips literature of its soul

Can you submit your writing and have AI make it better? Thank you!

I am paying for openAi key! Any chance any lowcost alternative

ChatGPT4 WAS INCREDIBLE in the beta. It spat out GOLD. After the beta it was nerfed into oblivion and censored.

Good points dude

ChapGPT 3.5 is plenty good enough for me. I only use it to help me write an outline, checking my grammar and spelling, . I'll never use AI to write prose.

(CHAT GPT... ) "It's better than nothing." I laughed out loud at this part.

I find that ChatGPT is fine. I keep my outlines and instructions very clear and simple, and the stuff that it spits out is completely fine. I use it purely for guidelines, and then completely rewrite what it's given me. 99% of the time, what I write is completely different to what ChatGPT provided.

Why does the camera keep zooming in as if it's trying to accentuate something that just isn't there?

Every chatbot is like a different tool. We just have to learn how to use them for different tasks. To me for now, Claude 3 is my recommendation.

As sombody with great ideas for writing but completly unable to put it to paper i use chatgpt and get it to edit it as i see fit.

On the wall, who is the man in the picture to the left of Tolkien?

thx...

Not sure what the goal is? Is the goal to assist you in research, grammar, fluency or is the goal to have a thought and have chatgpt write about it?

For menutes 5:06 and so on that's true. I agree about that, nice 😁😆

My problem with gemini, copilot, chatgpt + plugins is, no matter which prompt I use, copy & paste that content into quillbot AI detector always give me 100% AI so frustrating. How embedd this AI content when I not should use copy& paste? Any tips?

I want to read one of your books

I love it when people think they can tell it’s AI. Yeah, of course you can, you’re generating it. Go ahead to the bookstore and tell me what’s what. Dude would pick up LOTR and say, “Oh, it’s to purple to be a human.” 😂

It looks like someone is going to build a new computer son. Congrats.

Wait. You told us a while ago to us it. Now we shouldn't.