It's like I'm just being given a lecture by a skeleton on tropes, cliches, and a medical journal. Sometimes it at least performs this lecture with my characters being portrayed authentically and then other times it's like the lecture is being given by an unhinged dark romance obsession.

The text model feels like I am talking to ChatGPT using GPT 5. The "Not X, but Y" is giving me severe GPTSD... Whichever model is being used, its the most GPTesq model I have used.

Reading your post triggered my trauma. The text model's performance is absolute trash right now easily one of the worst states I've ever seen it in. Around 25 days ago, it wasn't like this at all. Whatever update they rolled out, they completely ruined it.

I haven't run into too many em dashes, just as many as I usually use, but everything else is the same here.

It's so repetitive. There's always a character who's feeling a profound sense of peace or pride in every fourth paragraph.

In a certain part of the story, I ask: "and the rich guy kissed her poor girlfriend with love" (that is: regular "charming prince 'happily ever after'"). What I receive is that the rich guy is actually an eldritch criminal asshole who smells of ozone and has stained fingers, but it's told in 15 paragraphs of over-dramatic chit-chat and the tokens reach the limits before the guy is able to kiss the girl. But at least a colossal machine is waking up below the city because the love wasn't an emotion, but a key.