ChatGPT blocks style mimicry requests, but may still capture a 'similar feeling'
ChatGPT starts blocking direct requests to copy an author's style
OpenAI's ChatGPT now refuses to generate text that directly imitates the style of famous authors, offering instead to capture their 'broad qualities' while remaining distinct. Tests show the model dodges requests for both living and deceased writers, a shift that could have legal implications as OpenAI faces copyright lawsuits from authors. The change follows a study finding inconsistent behavior across chatbots, with some like Gemini still complying.
We've never had a situation in which this personal style of individual creators could be imitated as well and as inexpensively as we now have with AI.
- malshe
This is rich considering LLMs can't even write like an average person let alone famous authors
- lethologica
After it stole literally every authors style in existence…
- raincole
Doesn't matter; have DeepSeek. US AI companies are too busy shaving their heads into their own rear sides.
I don't know what would happen when DeepSeek inevitably catch up though. Perhaps that's going to be how this wave of AI hype ends?
- at1as
I've asked it before to write in a style similar to Orwell (either directly, or by following his published rules for writing). I do hope that continues to be supported.
I just can't stand to see any more "Why It Matters.", and this trick seems to strip out the worst offenders
- pseingatl
Wuddabout:
Works unfinished at the time of the author's death?
Abandoned works?
Lost works? Prompt: Aristotle's work on comedy has been lost. Write a short treatise on comedy, using Aristotle's methods as shown in his Corpus and especially his treatises on Rhetoric and Poetics.