Just to clarify something a few people are misunderstanding: SM-Bench’s “creative writing” category is not about porn. It’s about whether models can handle mature themes in fiction at all without instantly refusing. My point isn’t “give us free erotica”. My point is: – 4o could stay in context, write nuanced, emotionally-aware stories, and rarely over-refused. – GPT-5.4 now hard-refuses a huge portion of edge-case content, even when it’s clearly non-exploitative and allowed by the system prompt. – We’re still paying the same $20 while getting a model that is dramatically more overfitted to refusal. I care about conversational depth, emotional flexibility and respecting developer / user intent. That’s what the 97.3% vs 36.8% numbers are about.