I have to agree here. The new model is only marginally better in some areas. Yet it still suffers from:
- Overly metaphorical descriptions of useless/non-plot driving environmental objects and phenomena. Still seems to have a hardcoded obsession with smells (Even in dialogue)
- Obsession with stage directions. (Knuckles whiten etc.)
- Still has a limited pool of names, referentials, examples.
I also found quite a few problems with dialogue generation
- Tweeness and Sentimentality: "Remember when Grandma (Always referred to as a proper noun regardless of relationship to speaker) used to bring us freshly baked cookies to school?"
- Gaslighting and Negation: I don't know if this is a personal problem, but the characters seem to be extremely gaslighting (I didn't tell them to be that) and constantly negate my statements with 'Bullshit'. Gets very agitating after a while.
- Tries way to hard to be funny and falls completely flat: "This place smells like regret and stale beer." (Two problems in one: obsession with smells and an overused AI trope) Other than that, the dialogue is slightly better and less all-out than the previous model.
Outside knowledge is satisfactory but not fantastic.
So yeah, it's better and perfectly fine for a free tool, but not nearly up to ChatGPT levels.