The Next Chapter: A Study of Large Language Models in Storytelling

Zhuohan Xie, Trevor Cohn, Jey Han Lau
1/24/2023
cs.CL

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To enhance the quality of generated stories, recent story generation models have been investigating the utilization of higher-level attributes like plots or commonsense knowledge. The application of prompt-based learning with large language models (LLMs), exemplified by GPT-3, has exhibited remarkable performance in diverse natural language processing (NLP) tasks. This paper conducts a comprehensive investigation, utilizing both automatic and human evaluation, to compare the story generation capacity of LLMs with recent models across three datasets with variations in style, register, and length of stories. The results demonstrate that LLMs generate stories of significantly higher quality compared to other story generation models. Moreover, they exhibit a level of performance that competes with human authors, albeit with the preliminary observation that they tend to replicate real stories in situations involving world knowledge, resembling a form of plagiarism.

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@article{xie2023next,
  title  = {The Next Chapter: A Study of Large Language Models in Storytelling},
  author = {Zhuohan Xie and Trevor Cohn and Jey Han Lau},
  year   = {2023},
  eprint = {2301.09790},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  url    = {http://arxiv.org/abs/2301.09790v3}
}

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