To be honest, it comes down to personal preference. I mean, it absolutely has its issues (It's not X (SEMI-COLON) it's Y, excessive repetition etc.), but I'd still take it anytime over both the "Elena CasteLLamos" or "Deep like a Seek".

Ah yes. I still remember the good ol' days of Elena Castellanos.

I'd have to completely disagree. The new model has been a joy to work with so far.

• Gone are the constant flowery descriptions of useless environmental objects. (Especially its hardcoded obsessions with smell)
• Gone is the constant hanging on one topic/object etc.
• Gone is the pretentious, twee, stereotypical dialogue, which was execrably dependant on similes.
• Gone is the stubborn refusal to follow instructions on how to write. (It actually does what it's told. I asked it to write only 2-3 line of dialogue per character and that's exactly what it did.)
• The auto-improve feature actually works now.
• This AI can actually think for itself and doesn't need constant nudging and correcting.

I understand you might be a bit distraught over this, but think about why the AI turned 'robotic': because people were sick of the constant flowery, overly verbose, filler descriptions of useless or even useful items.

I'm very glad about these changes, but I do think a post should've been made just to alert everyone. A rollback I believe is impossible, since dev probably spent months on this and is definitely not gonna abandon it now.

I have to agree here. The new model is only marginally better in some areas. Yet it still suffers from:

1. Overly metaphorical descriptions of useless/non-plot driving environmental objects and phenomena. Still seems to have a hardcoded obsession with smells (Even in dialogue)
2. Obsession with stage directions. (Knuckles whiten etc.)
3. Still has a limited pool of names, referentials, examples.

I also found quite a few problems with dialogue generation

1. 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?"
2. 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.
3. 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.

I've been getting this problem too. Characters that are supposed to be neutral to my character's preference act all gaslighting and narcissistic, constantly negating my statements with curt words like 'Bullshit'. The AI seems to follow what IT please, not what you please. It's infuriating.