I listened to a podcast where an author spoke about using agentic AI to make a writing "team". He had beta reader/critics responding from specific perspectives, another grammar LLM, and an editor LLM - he'd pass drafts back and forth between them like they were people as part of the process.

I have a couple of paid LLMs - Microsoft CoPilot for 365 as part of a subscription, and Perplexity (I have a 3 month free trial program). I started playing with them to see how they could benefit.

I was trying to research a science-fiction book I'd read as a teenager, I only knew the name of one of the races in book, and tried Gemini, Perplexity, ChatGPT and CoPilot. Only ChatGPT pulled up the book title and author, along with a summary - and this was the free ChatGPT version.

I assume that's more a function of the training library, not the LLM itself.

Then, I tried giving them outlines of plot ideas to write - Gemini came in last, the others were comparable. As a last task, I asked them all to write a 500-word short story about an astronaut stranded on Mars, with elements of the story Robinson Crusoe on Mars and The Martian.

ChatGPT felt more nuanced, CoPilot even used the names of the sources in the story. Perplexity felt like a direct-to-dvd version of "The Martian" that you'd see one on of those free channels on Roku.

I think I'll use CoPilot when writing, I like the idea of training it on my own documents and having it easily identify my writing style and body of work out of the box.