Anthropic announced Fable 5 a day or two ago with fanfare as their new frontier-defining model. To try something a bit different, we used Fable 5 for one of our favorite pastimes: entertainment through novel creative writing.
Given a simple prompt, Fable 5 followed instructions pretty well (narrative direction and overall atmosphere) and wrote some nice turns-of-phrase. However, even for simple prompts, Fable 5 produced pretty um, lackluster results:
She asks how I'm sleeping and I say fine. I say fine the way you set a glass down very carefully so it doesn't make a sound.
We also asked Fable to grade its own short story, containing the excerpt above, on narrative quality and it gave a 5/10, so at least there's some artificial-self-awareness there? Somewhat amusingly, it cited the quote above as an example of "restrained, genuinely good." I suppose as a mere human I could be wrong here but I'm not convinced.
The dialogue Fable 5 produced was largely awkward as well, and even when asked to pay special attention to writing human-like dialog, the turns were abrupt and delivered as some sort of pseudo-profound thing.
Not to be too negative here; despite some awkward wordsmithing, the short stories were compelling enough to want to read the whole thing. With some better prompting maybe it would do better (suggestions welcome in the comments!). Overall though, Fable 5 does not seem like it will replace human writers.
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