Anthropic on Tuesday introduced a new feature in the cloud that will allow artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots to generate responses in users’ preferred writing style. The new feature, called Custom Styles, aims to align the chatbot’s responses with how the user typically writes and prefers to read. With this personalization feature, users can either select from three preset options or add their own writing sample to let the AI adopt the style they want. The company has rolled out the new feature for all cloud users.
Anthropic introduces custom styles in the cloud
While chatbots powered by large language models (LLM) are capable of generating content on virtually any topic, the limiter often becomes the writing style. AI can sometimes generate content in an overly formal tone that might not be appropriate for a tailored message to a friend, or use a flowery language that might be too attractive for an academic paper.
While some AI tools, such as Google’s Gemini in Gmail and Docs or Samsung’s Galaxy AI in Notes, offer some presets for users to control the tone of the generated output, such tools are generally not available in major AI chatbots. Are there. For most cases, the only solution is to manually elaborate the desired writing style in each prompt.
Custom Styles feature in the cloud
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In a Newsroom post, Anthropic announced the release of a Custom Styles feature that will make this process easier. The new feature is available to all users on all platforms. To use it, users can go to the cloud and see a new quill icon added below the text field next to the AI model selection button.
Once the user taps on the icon, users can see four preset options – General, Brief, Formal, and Explanatory. Formal style produces clear and sophisticated responses whereas concise style produces short and direct responses. Anthropic says the expository style is suitable for “educational responses to learning new concepts.”
Apart from this, users can also create custom styles. The process is simple. Users can tap on the “Create and edit styles” option which opens a new pop-up window. Users can either paste their writing sample or upload a document. Cloud Writing can analyze content for structure, tone, word preference, and more.
Gadgets 360 staff members were able to test out the feature. The feature appears to be working well, however, in practical use, we found that the AI was not able to understand the nuances of writing and was only able to follow the general outlines of the writing style.
