Towards Human-Level Book-Writing Capability
Large language models are optimized for instruction following and agentic tasks remain poorly aligned with the requirements of high-quality creative writing. We show that a purpose-built creative writing model can outperform both GPT-5.5 and Claude Opus 4.8 on writing quality evaluation. Fiction frequently depends on behaviors that assistant-tuned models are explicitly trained to avoid, particularly deception, moral ambiguity, and unreliable narration. As a result, generated stories often appear structurally correct while remaining stylistically generic, overly explanatory, or weakly grounded in human literary behavior. We present a dataset construction and training framework for book-sca...
| Authors | Jan Zierstek, Matteo Batelic, Maya Medjad et al. |
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| Primary category | cs.AI |
| Published | 16 May 2026 |
| Last updated at source | 28 June 2026 |
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