Open-weight models can't write long stories: quality degrades or length undershoots
mrdrozdov · x · 2026-08-22
rishanthrajendh argues open-weight LLMs handle long-form storywriting poorly: either writing quality degrades as length grows, or they severely undershoot the requested length, often both. Frontier models fare better. The open question: can open-weight models be trained for long stories with limited data and compute?
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