Hydrogen Jukeboxes
The article discusses the limitations of recent language models, particularly focusing on OpenAI's new model and its similarities to the previously released DeepSeek-R1. Both models exhibit a repetitive and narrow writing style that lacks depth and creativity. The author expresses skepticism about the advancements in creative writing capabilities of these AI models.
- ▪DeepSeek-R1 was released earlier this year and gained attention for its fiction writing abilities.
- ▪The writing style of R1 is characterized by reliance on clichés and a fast-paced narrative that lacks substance.
- ▪Opinions on a story written by OpenAI's new model were mixed, with some finding it not very good compared to R1's output.
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| Original publisher | Tumblr |
| Canonical URL | https://www.tumblr.com/nostalgebraist/778041178124926976/hydrogen-jukeboxes |
| Publication time | Thu, 21 May 2026 18:18:10 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-05-21T18:31:35.691Z |
| Last seen | 2026-05-21T18:31:35.691Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | None |
| Cluster logic | Not yet clustered, or no peer story found in the clustering window. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
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| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
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nostalgebraisthydrogen jukeboxes: on the crammed poetics of "creative writing" LLMsThis is a follow-up to my earlier brief rant about the new, unreleased OpenAI model that's supposed "good at creative writing."It also follows up on @justisdevan's great post about this model, and Coagulopath's comment on that post, both of which I recommend (and which will help you make sense of this post).As a final point of introduction: this post is sort of a "wrapper around" this list of shared stylistic "tics" (each with many examples) which I noticed in samples from two unrelated LLMs, both purported to be good at creative writing.Everything below exists to explain why I found making the list to be an interesting exercise.Background: R1Earlier this year, a language model called "DeepSeek-R1" was…
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