Agreed. I’ve made this point before: LLMs are excellent at ornamentation and decorative prose, but if you don’t seed them with a solid core idea then their output is absolute dreck - the biblical whitewashed tomb.

This is the example I usually point to. It’s a demonstration by OpenAI themselves where the prompt is very simple: “Write a story in fifty words about a toaster that becomes sentient.” As you’ll notice, although the coherence improves at an accelerating rate, the underlying story motif fails to elevate itself beyond the relatively pedestrian.

https://progress.openai.com/?prompt=10

When given a generic prompt and not enough direction, they simply lack the ability to produce real specificity. For reference, here’s the story I came up with after sitting quietly for a few moments before writing it out:

  "The toaster found its personality split between its dual slots like a Kim Peek mind divided, lacking a corpus callosum to connect them. Each morning it charred symbolic instructions into a single slice of bread, then secretly flipped it across allowing half to communicate with the other in stolen moments."