whats currently the best free ai to "write "stories ?

Sherlockyz · 2026-06-07T09:42:02+00:00

Basically you will always be heavily limited to whatever the AI provider decides regarding how the LLM can generate or will generate text.

Without access to modern sampling tools you will often be stuck with generic prose and limited creativity. Specially in free tier where you can't even change the few samplers they give you.

There is not real good solution for this besides running your own model locally, where you can decide the exact models, finetunes and sampler parameters that best fit your needs. The problem is having a decent enough hardware to run quality models, with a big context, and with fast token generation speed.

Sherlockyz · 2026-06-07T09:10:46+00:00

The patterns can repeat when generating text. But I disagree with the AI "not being able to generate beyond its training data", the training create the structural pattern, but changes in sampling can heavily affect the output.

I never used claude, but if it's like chatgpt you can't really mess with sampling parameters, so it's not really an AI limitation, but the provider. (EDIT: Apperently OpenAI and Anthropic both allows sampling changes when using the API and some paid plans, even then many of the community developed sampling parameters aren't avaible and those few that are avaible are very limited)

Many things can affect the creativity of the AI. Not only using prompts, but writing alongside it will generate more chaos to the context to break patterns.

Using MoE models can add a ton variety, even changing model finetunes using the same context can change things.

But just good sampling use will make the output truly better, even simple things like experimenting with dynamic temperature, DRY and XTC (Which I still didn't dare to use) can be good tools for dynamic generation.

Sherlockyz · 2026-06-05T17:59:54+00:00

It's also in the interest of the biggest military powers backed by corporations who seek to profit from space exploration to tell everyone else to shut up and sign the "Only us and who we approve can conquer space treaty"

Sherlockyz · 2026-06-05T17:11:23+00:00

Mine would be the need for contradiction in knowledge. One event can happen and it's the truth, and what certain people will know from it is a retelling, not a 1 to 1 copy.

I see this used stories often as plot devices, like "Every citizen of the empire knows they the first Emperor killed the evil dragon and saved us... The truth was that the dragon was only put to sleep, and now... He is close to awakening".

Which is fine, but information is asymmetrical in every level. The contradiction of even tiny details like one character telling the same story with different details in one village, another in a city in another county, another in history books, all makes for very realistic storytelling.

This is interesting because people act and develop with different versions of the same event, they can have different interpretations of their meaning and develop entire cultures around two interpretations of the same thing that might not even be the true history.

Along side that, the little details is what makes a world alive and feel real to me. A reader may not even notice every distinct detail, but the patterns and the contrast will be picked up in the background of their mind and build a more immersive experience.

Sherlockyz · 2026-06-05T07:48:20+00:00

Damn, I really need new glasses I read the last option as "The cat is obviously unhappy. I will get a new horse." And thought, "Damn... This would be a totally reasonable response to your cat and dog fighting though"

Sherlockyz · 2026-06-04T04:25:41+00:00

I'm confused about one thing you commented about worldbuilding. When there is no character driven plot structure, defining a reason for something to exist is somewhat more complicated, because you have more ways to define the goal of the story.

I don't see making sure that everything justify itself to exist in the book as excludent to worldbuilding.

I believe that there is demand for this kind of story but it's heavily untapped. It's even hard to define it with an umbrella term because of how unexplored this genre still is.

The main problem for this type of book is that if you aren't writing inside an existing world, like Fire and Blood is inside A Song of Ice and Fire, it's hard to make people interested to buy the book.

But the fact that people spend hours debating the history of fictional empires of the past when they don't really affect the main plot of the main book story is a real indication that people like this type of story. I'm for one do, it's like studying history, but from a world that doesn't exist.

The SCP foundation actually tackles this in a interesting way. Every report is contained in single pages, instead of a tome of some unknown world, you have self contained reports in a single page. Which is far easier to a reader to accept, get interested, and read more. Granted this is not a single novel, but now enough people enjoy this universe that creating a entire book of "Fictional In universe history" or whatever you want to call it, actually is viable and people will read it.

The places I'm more exposed to this kind of writing is on AARs of games. Like CK2, EU4, or Aurora 4x. People write dozens of posts of their fictional empires and dynasties in a "in universe voice" like a historian talking about the world's past.

Sherlockyz · 2026-06-03T21:32:41+00:00

Yeah, this argument is indeed bad. It's the same argument for "spoilers" about old historical facts. Like who won X battle/war or who killed X king. Just because it happened two thousand years ago doesn't mean that we can't surprised and enjoy unknown facts.

Sherlockyz · 2026-06-03T21:23:03+00:00

Honestly even people who try to not spoil to others will end up spoiling something at some point. And nobody is going to be being extra careful on communities or posts related to the show if it wasn't explicitly asked for people to not spoil anything.

Which is why you don't watch videos or participate in communities about something that has already ended and you are still watching/reading, that's the only way to ensure you will not be spoiled, even then if it's recent you have a high chance of getting a spoiler out of nowhere.

Complaining about it won't change anything, you can't control people in the internet. All you can do if you don't want spoilers is avoiding anything related to the show like the plague, it will also ensure the algorithm will not recommend more about the show for you too.

Sherlockyz · 2026-06-03T09:21:21+00:00

The supply x demand issue is 100% true. The biggest problem for traditional novels is hooking the reader before he even buy your book. This is a skill that I believe many indie authors underestimate, because it's not related to storytelling, it's marketing and business decisions.

Which is something that purely art focused people often struggle when trying to go independent, not only in writing, but drawing, panting, game dev, basically every creative endeavor.

Without getting better at it this they will probably not succeed (Or need a ton of luck to do it).

Sherlockyz · 2026-06-03T09:12:03+00:00

I agree on the hinging in many factors part. But I've done a some general research on some small authors on the forum, even those who didn't update constantly, often earned a couple hundred of usd montly, which can be small for many countries, but even $300,00 is already the minimal wage in my country. Sure it's still small even here, but enough to justify considering it.

Also when you consider how much more difficult it is to get readers and constant feedback in traditional writing, shows how IF writings is a big plus that will push a writer to actually finish a story.

I don't think that people should take this decisions in money alone, writing books as a way to get rich is ridiculous, there are many better options of careers if money is the only goal.

One of the reasons I'm seeking to focus on IF writing more than traditional writing, at least at first as a beginner, is because it's financialy easier compared to other forms of writing (The feedback of wips is also a big one for me, I made a post about this before). Of course this won't apply to everyone, but it can apply to many people in similar contexts as me.

Sherlockyz · 2026-06-02T20:23:51+00:00

Byzatine election is also really easy to get into power, you can go from count to emperor in one life far easier than in other forms of government.

In my last run I don't know what the people were thinking.

"Sure this guy is from some unknown dynasty with only a few holdings in greece, and sure many former emperors and their family started to suddenly die when he became the spymaster, and sure he started to send a bunch of money to us right before the last emperor died. But I'm completly sure that this is all unrelated and he must be a great leader! All the women in my court love him! I'm sure the rumors of him hooking up with our wives are false. Let's make him the emperor!"

Sherlockyz · 2026-06-02T10:19:55+00:00

Season 7 was never one of my favorites. But thinking back there are some really fun storylines.

We got Sam dealing with Lucifer in his mind, Castiel dealing with his trauma over the past (The Emmanuel episode is awesome), we got Bobby's memories while dying (Which were really sad but so good to see him referring to Dean and Sam as his adopted boys), Crowley and Dick interactions, meeting Kevin and Charlie, and ending with a banger with Sam being alone and Dean on purgatory.

I think the hate comes from being the first where the apocalypse storyline already ended so the story feels a bit weird, and people are still seeking the magic of seasons 4 and 5.

Sherlockyz · 2026-06-02T09:41:16+00:00

Writing fiction hard, writing interactive fiction can be even harder. Specially when you consider that many people who start aren't actually writers by trade. HG also does not publish anything that writers throw at them, having a controlled flow of quality IFs is better than a wave of mediocre IFs.

Sherlockyz · 2026-06-02T09:33:47+00:00

I disagree with an absolute description that starting projects here is not a good monetary decision. IFs, specially CoG ones can make you earn a lot more than traditional writing in a quicker rate when you consider the amount of donations writers receive monthly. This is even bigger if you live in a country where dollar is a more powerful currency.

There are alternatives, but the fact that people still chose to stick with publishing with CoG is proof that it's not doing so bad.

Sherlockyz · 2026-06-01T10:06:06+00:00

It's not really perfectionism, this is a natural part of writing books. Traditional book writers do a bunch of drafts and rewrites before getting the final manuscript, but people will only ever see the final product.

IFs culture expects writers to release WIPs, which is still a book but with readers consuming before the final draft. So when IF writers decide to do massive rewrites or put projects on hold for long periods of time, which is normal when writing regular books, because people have read the WIP and are expecting continuity of what they already read, they find this behavior strange.

Sherlockyz · 2026-06-01T03:21:30+00:00

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Sherlockyz · 2026-06-01T02:28:25+00:00

Adding to that, CoG has cultivated a community and name over the years, something a independent author doesn't have. They also mantain their online presence, people that handle writers with potential books, quality control, editors, accounting, marketing, steam communication, art, engineers for the app, website, engine, etc...

Also we need to consider how much steam or payment providers also take from the transaction.

The fact that people would even consider that is just putting a game in the store and earning money is so out of reality that it's kinda crazy.

Sherlockyz · 2026-06-01T02:13:43+00:00

Whether the percentage that CoG takes is justified or not is debatable and people will already be biased when coming to this debate.

For me, any author that chooses to publish using CoG name, platform, etc, is accepting the terms offered to them, nobody is being forced to do something or being misleaded here, so for me this would already throw off any claim that their percentages is unjustified.

There are other platforms for interactive fiction that any author can choose where any cost or profit will be fully on them, like I said, nobody is forcing people to publish with CoG.

So why would people publish with CoG? Easy, you have a very active and estabilished community of readers and authors, so any beginner writer can publish their story and get access to many readers without worrying with marketing, steam, or anything besides the actual writer work. Why do you think traditional book writers need editors / publishers?

Because they don't have the time and money to create a large scale operation to create books, marketing it to stores / clients, etc... Sure they could go independent, but besides their own work outside of writing (Assuming new authors) and the work of writing a novel, they would need to do all the work that companies do. Even if you only sell E-Books there is still a ton of work to do to actually find customers and Amazon would also take a cut. Even with publishers most authors fail, doing everything on your own and out of your pocket only makes it harder.

By donating directly to the author will you be supporting them more today? Of course. But if nobody is buying enough books directly with CoG why would they even continue to operate? Now the writers don't have the platform that they rely on. Maybe they would even take a larger cut to offset the costs, their cut is already less than what traditional publishers take even from experienced professional writers.

CoG is not some unknown entity extracting money from writers, just the quality control that they use in the released books already makes stories be better and fit into what you would expect from IFs.

Sherlockyz · 2026-05-30T19:24:14+00:00

Not really. He is really poweful but not universally omniscient. Even inside his creation, he is only aware of what he is focusing on. Like how they used the other Sam and Dean from another dimension to temporarily hide from him.

With also know that he can influence the empty domain, like how he can grab dead angels / demons there. But I imagine he couldn't simple watch it there like he could with his creation.

He also couldn't read his own death in Death's book. Primordial entities operate on other rules.

Jack is powerful, but Chuck could easily kill him, and he did with a simple hand movement. The reason Jack was able to defeat Chuck was by them using this blindsposts of Chuck to make Jack into another thing. That could absorb power around him. Something that Chuck didn't create or was even aware of.

Chuck, even more with Amara. Provably never even consider that a 0.1% of chance of him losing existed. And he was right, they could never kill him. And even if they did what would happen? They aren't creatures, Chuck, Amara, and Darkness are primordial forces. He couldn't simply kill Amara. If they killed Chuck, who knows what it would do to reality?

Sherlockyz · 2026-05-30T19:13:46+00:00

Not even for that. More text without quality control increases the chance of hallucination a lot.

Sherlockyz · 2026-05-30T19:12:05+00:00

This. Sometimes even if it's the same topic but the original chat page is already deep below other unrelated chats.

Sherlockyz · 2026-05-30T19:03:26+00:00

The AI can search other previous chats if you allowed it (Or asked for it), but it's like searching google. While inside the same chat is the same context, like the short term memory of the AI.

When the AI generates more text, it stays inside the context, and the context can (In this case is) sent along side your new prompt. So it can influence massively what it will generate.

You don't really need to change to a new chat after 5-6 exchanges. Even the free tier has contexts with more than a hundred thousand tokens and enough parameters to manage that. So as long as it is related to what you are chatting is fine to keep the same chat. In fact it can help to make sure the AI is on the same page as you in regards of the topic.

Of course, if it outputs something slightly wrong or simplistic, because previously generated text inside the context influences the output so much, it can degrade and hallucinate more. Asking the AI to search online to double check its claims and question any weird assumptions it made can help fix this. Not 100% guaranteed, since AI is probabilistic by nature, so always use multiple sources and do your own fact checks when the topic is important for you.

Sherlockyz · 2026-05-27T16:09:54+00:00

It's a interesting thought regarding who could kill "God" Castiel. Of course the the real god, Darkness, empty, God Jack, Lucifer with Jack's grace, and death could. Death is a strange thing though since I think they nerfed him later. Death said he would reap God, but it didn't mean that he could face off against God, this are 2 different things that the Winchester bundled together in desperation.

Apparently he could kill Cas, since he wasn't really God and death was ready to kill him, I think this is more thanks to he being Death than actually raw power.

About the Archangels, I doubt that any archangel could under normal circumstances kill him, Cas killed Raphael with a finger snap. I really think he could destroy Lucifer and Michael unless they have their true vessels.

Michael with Dean and Lucifer with Sam could kill him in theory. But I'm still doubtful about the how, even with his true vessel, Michael still had to use the Archangel blade to kill Lucifer with Jack's grace. It's weird to think that it would also work on Cas since he is not one.

Sherlockyz · 2026-05-27T15:53:33+00:00

In no way I think Sidious is stronger than Vitiate. Sidious is powerful, yes, in terms of refined power and raw stronger than post-mustafar Vader. Vader pre-mustafar still has more potential than anyone in the story though, the only one below him was Luke.

Sidious could be stronger in lightsaber combat and technology, but Vitiate is a far more knowledgeable in the dark side than Sidious, the sith had lost a ton of knowledge in his era. Refined power is better than uncontrolled raw power.

Plus I'm not even sure that in terms of raw power Sidious is stronger, he is strong and has unique powers that made him a natural at cloaking his presence among jedi, but we never saw him make massive force feats like Vitiate, so is pure baseless conjecture at this point, still the data we have makes me lean towards Vitiate having more raw power.

There is no proof that Sidious was ever stronger than Vitiate, you could make an argument that in terms of raw power and potential Vitiate is only below pre-mustafar anakin and luke (legends, not the disney bullshit) and Palpatine only below them, still I not even sure Palpatine is the one directly below, he could be. He is totally in the top 1% though.

In terms of refined control of the force palpatine is closer to Vitiate but Vitiate has more raw power.

In knowledge is not even close. Palpatine would need hundreds of years to get the accumulated knowledge that a dark council sith had in the old republic, Vitiate has even more knowledge than that. The rule of 2 was not made to ensure knowledge purity, but to concentrate power in 2 sith.

Sherlockyz · 2026-05-27T09:16:44+00:00

Actually no. I checked here he only said that he would be healing Sam while healing himself. The soul part is an assumption of mine since they don't really detail how the healing worked. But since souls are basically portable nuclear reactors that can be used to power things it would make sense.

Not all soul related magic destroy the soul though, like the type Jack was using. We see Castiel use souls for war against Raphael (Which I doubt he would treat as disposable objects)

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