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GPT-5: Overdue, overhyped and underwhelming. And that’s not the worst of it.
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What model do you recommend for brainstorming creative pursuits? As an adult with a "Serious Job™", it's hard for me to find anyone that has an interest in being creative. I find LLMs to give me enough feedback to help me flesh my ideas out.
idk I just use my brain for that kind of stuff. I use AI only for knowledge hunting.
For writing in English, GLM 4.5 is pretty good, open weights, and free or very cheap (free if you want just a chat interface, go to z.ai; cheap if you want API access, I'd recommend OpenRouter). It's imo the best non-closed source LLM for writing in English. DeepSeek can be good for that too, but I've found that it can sometimes produce sentences that flow a lot worse (you can use DeepSeek for free via their website as a chat interface). For other creative pursuits, I'm not sure - if you give me an idea of what you'd want out of one, I can try to give you advice.
GLM is great. I liked 4 a lot, and 4.5 hasn't been a disappointment.