I swear OpenAI needs to address how awful the writing quality in ChatGPT is. God forbid, even Grok crafts better now when it comes to creative writing. What is this atrocious one-sentence paragraph BS? Not to mention, I am tired of the anaphora, where it says, "Not X. Not Y. Not Z." And I'm sure all of us who do creative writing can recognize the lazy, "The room froze," "He stilled," "For a moment, everything stopped," type of forced tension. I can go on, but you guys get my point.

Before anyone lectures me on writing my own stuff, I absolutely do, but sometimes, I enjoy roleplaying as well. It's a form of relaxation for me, a different escape from playing videogames or reading books. As an incredibly introverted person and a woman online, I am just not comfortable roleplaying with random strangers. I also use ChatGPT to practice my creative writing skills, but it's been incredibly uninspiring with the 5.X series. It feels like I'm a PhD student trying to collaborate with a high-schooler who writes bad fanfiction. (Disclaimer: Anything I write with ChatGPT will not be published. I only roleplay with it for personal entertainment.)

The first image is 5.5-Thinking-Extended (High); the second is the model before January 29, 2025, update. (I am purposely not saying the 2nd model's name because I think that gets my post shadow-banned.) As you can see the writing has degraded considerably since then. Even the worst story on Ao3 is a masterpiece compared to 5.5T.

Writing Quality Degradation