Pron vs Prompt: Can Large Language Models already Challenge a World-Class Fiction Author at Creative Text Writing?

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2407.01119v2
• Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2024 16:32:01 GMT
• Title: Pron vs Prompt: Can Large Language Models already Challenge a World-Class Fiction Author at Creative Text Writing?
• Authors: Guillermo Marco, Julio Gonzalo, Ramón del Castillo, María Teresa Mateo Girona,
• Abstract summary: Large Language Models (LLMs) outperform average humans in a wide range of language-related tasks. We have carried out a contest between Patricio Pron and GPT-4, in the spirit of AI-human duels such as DeepBlue vs Kasparov and AlphaGo vs Lee Sidol. The results indicate that LLMs are still far from challenging a top human creative writer.
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• Abstract: It has become routine to report research results where Large Language Models (LLMs) outperform average humans in a wide range of language-related tasks, and creative text writing is no exception. It seems natural, then, to raise the bid: Are LLMs ready to compete in creative writing skills with a top (rather than average) novelist? To provide an initial answer for this question, we have carried out a contest between Patricio Pron (an awarded novelist, considered one of the best of his generation) and GPT-4 (one of the top performing LLMs), in the spirit of AI-human duels such as DeepBlue vs Kasparov and AlphaGo vs Lee Sidol. We asked Pron and GPT-4 to provide thirty titles each, and then to write short stories for both their titles and their opponent's. Then, we prepared an evaluation rubric inspired by Boden's definition of creativity, and we collected 5,400 manual assessments provided by literature critics and scholars. The results of our experimentation indicate that LLMs are still far from challenging a top human creative writer, and that reaching such level of autonomous creative writing skills probably cannot be reached simply with larger language models.

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