Did Claude solve a major AI challenge? 😲

By Burak Tunca • Read Time: 3 min

Hello everyone,

This week, Claude, a major ChatGPT rival, announced a new feature that allows users to generate outputs matching their own writing style. While users previously relied on complex prompts to mimic personal writing styles, this built-in feature promises more consistent results. If Claude has indeed solved this challenge, it could have substantial implications for learning education. In this issue, we will explore this significant development in detail.

Have a nice weekend!

Burak

For those unfamiliar with Claude, it is a frontier large language model (LLM) developed by Anthropic, which has proven itself more capable than ChatGPT in many instances. If you are an avid ChatGPT or Copilot user, I strongly recommend trying Claude. You can create a free account on Claude.ai and start using it immediately. However, keep in mind potential data privacy considerations.

This week, Claude introduced a new feature that allows output style customization. Why is this such a big deal? You might have noticed that LLMs like ChatGPT, Copilot, or Claude produce outputs that have a certain “AIness” that feels familiar. In fact, several teachers told me that they can immediately recognize AI-written text just by looking. My response has often been “for now”. With the new update from Claude, we might have reached the “for now” moment.

To date, many have been trying to generate text that mimicked their own style by using advanced prompting techniques and sharing examples but the results have not been satisfactory. Nobody could really make AI sound like them in writing. That is why this announcement might become a major milestone in our GenAI journey, with significant consequences for our teaching.

To try this feature, you only need to select “create & edit styles” under the “choose styles” menu, and create a custom style by uploading samples of your writing (or describing it as a prompt):



Once your style is created, you will be able to see it under the “choose styles” menu (in this case you see a “Burak” style):



Style customization in AI presents a double-edged sword for education. While it can improve our own productivity as teachers and allow us to generate materials in different styles depending on the level of a student group for example; it will make it even more difficult to distinguish AI-assisted from original work. As such features continue to evolve, it will raise new questions about authorship and academic integrity. Needless to say, the implications extend beyond the classroom, potentially reshaping research practices like grant applications and academic publishing.

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