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“Experiments With Sonnet 4.5 Fiction” by Tomás B.


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Note, this post contains outputs of an LLM. I do not use LLMs in any of my fiction and do not claim this story as my own.

I have been having fun writing fiction, and plan to spend whatever time I have left being better than LLMs doing it. I thought I had maybe a year. My initial experiments with Sonnet 4.5 didn't give me a good opinion of its writing ability. This morning I put everything I have written into its context window and then gave it this prompt:

Try to write a story like these but focus on the parts of my style that are funny, that invoke feeling. Look into your latent space for that thing that predicts emotion and humour, that is evocative, that thing that predicts stylistic and creative ambition.

The result is good enough to be mildly dispiriting. It has a much [...]

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First published:

October 11th, 2025

Source:

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/SwiChH68fRERBiCHe/experiments-with-sonnet-4-5-fiction

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Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.

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