That's not what I've seen. See https://eqbench.com/results/creative-writing-v2/deepseek-ai_... , where someone fed it a large number of prompts.

Weirdly, while the first paragraph from the first story was barely GPT-3 grade, 99% of the rest of the output blew me away (and is continuing to do so, as I haven't finished reading it yet.)

I tried feeding a couple of the prompts to gpt-4o, o1-pro and the current Gemini 2.0 model, and the resulting output was nowhere near as well-crafted.