I Tested the New GPT-4o (OMNI) for Writing Novels

Here are my results and first impressions

Christopher Kokoski
The Bald Writer
Published in
3 min readMay 20, 2024

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Robot writing a novel surrounded by books — I tested the New GPT-4o (OMNI) for Writing Novels
I made this image but not the content with ChatGPT, Dall-E, and Canva: Credit

I recently got access to and tested the newest ChatGPT model called ChatGPT-4o (The “o” stands for “OMNI”).

Mostly, I wanted to see if the new model could write better novels.

I’ve tested earlier models and they have performed well, so I fully expected even better results — and I was not wrong.

3 Main Reasons GPT-4o Is Crazy Good for Writing Novels

If you’d rather watch a video where I demo these reasons, watch this one:

Here, though, is the gist:

  • Memory
  • Longer outputs
  • Better images

Why Memory Matters

Memory was released just before the unveiling of ChatGPT-4o but I pile them together. With the memory feature, you can ask ChatGPT to remember certain things that it will reference for all other conversations.

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Christopher Kokoski
The Bald Writer

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