Storytelling with AI: How Kurt Vonnegut Could Revolutionize LLM Story Generation
If you’ve been using large language models (LLM) in creative writing or story development, you probably already experienced that even top-tier models like GPT-4o or Sonnet-3.5 are struggling with narrative pacing and coherence — long-form narration is still tricky for large language models.
At least that is what it has been until now.
A recent study titled “Are Large Language Models Capable of Generating Human-Level Narratives?” offers some intriguing insights and proposes a novel solution to the challenge of AI-assisted long-form narration.
Inspired by none other than the great Kurt Vonnegut.
Why LLMs Struggle With Long-Form Narration
LLMs have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in various linguistic tasks. Not a single writers room I worked for in 2024 that didn’t use AI assistance in one form or another. In every phase of story development, I encountered AI-assisted workflows that speed up and enrich plotting, world-building, treatment development and — to some extent — even script-writing. In storytelling, producers and writers alike recognize the potency of AI-powered structural iterations.
