I had a fun night playing around with ChatGPT when it comes to creating a fantasy world. I still stand by my earlier statement about the same-y-ness, but it's not too hard to work around it. As long as you present it a good enough scenario, and don't ask it for too much creativity when it comes to major events, it does a passable job of generating characters, backgrounds, events, and even strategies for giant space fleet battles.

> Sure, here is a possible strategy that the fleet can use when engaging a very well dug in enemy in a space fortress built around a black hole:

> Divide the fleet into three groups: a main assault group, a flanking group, and a support group.

> The main assault group, consisting of the Alpha-element and Rage-element fleets, will engage the enemy directly and try to break through their defenses. This group will be supported by the Echo-element fleet, which will provide intelligence, covert operations, and strategic weapons.

> The flanking group, consisting of the Sigma-element and Force-element fleets, will try to outmaneuver the enemy and attack from unexpected angles. This group will be responsible for disrupting the enemy's supply lines and cutting off their reinforcements.

> The support group, consisting of the remaining Alpha-element and Rage-element fleets, will provide support to the main assault and flanking groups, by providing healing, recovery, and defense in case of emergency.

> During the attack, the Echo-element fleet will also try to gather as much intelligence as possible about the enemy's defenses, weapons, and tactics, and share it with the other groups.

> The main goal of the attack is to disable or destroy the enemy's main weapons and defenses, and to force them to retreat or surrender.

> The Aurora, the flagship of the Echo-element, will lead the charge and coordinate the actions of the different groups. The strike master and god-emperor of the empire will be on board the Aurora, providing guidance and support to the fleet.

> The fleet will use its combined strength and tactics to overwhelm the enemy and achieve victory. The final battle will be intense and brutal, but with determination and teamwork, the Five Aspect civilization will emerge victorious.

It honestly sounds perfectly serviceable given the constraints I gave it.

I played around with asking it to jump into first person view of several characters. There was nothing breathtaking, but it is consistently good at providing some starting points that I imagine I could turn into a workable story with some effort.

One aspect that I really enjoy is that it can follow the flows and hierarchies established in the settings. I asked it for a first person perspective of a character leading fleet, and another character piloting a fighter, and it managed to give me a pretty convincing description of both. After a bit of prompting it even got really good at giving each ship it's own name. Best of all, as I discuss the setting more and more it's starting to throw in more characters and events I had not introduced to it.

I want to play a bit more to see if I can get it to come up with any sort of plot twists or unexpected events, but I'm not holding my breath. Still, even this much is a world of a difference.

As a bonus, it's decently good at coming up with Dall-E prompts. Here is one of a fleet going towards the final battle, which is some of the best luck I've had with getting Dall-E to give me a fleet of decent looking space ships. Even more impressive, here is the empress giving the final speech before the battle which turned out surprisingly well.

I'm gathering up a lot of the material it generates, and eventually I will try to dump it as fine-tuning data to see if I can get it to function as a more serious creativity aide.

Edit: Hokay... Well, it took a bit, but color me genuinely impressed. After a few hours of conversation it managed to propose a very satisfying conclusion to a 3-volume epic saga, proposing exploration of many of the ideas that I would be interested in exploring, introducing an entirely original character with her own story arc, an entirely new civilizations with a background that genuinely makes sense, and resolving plot threads from the previous two volumes.