I look forward for the day someone trains a model that can do good writing, without emdashes, it's not but and all of the AI slop.

You want a base model like text-davinci-001. Instruct models have most of their creativity destroyed.

How do you use the base model?

OpenAI Playground still has it. Otherwise go out and find one.

Try one of the fine-tunes from https://allura.moe/. Or use an autocomplete model. Mistral and Qwen have them.