ChatGPT starts blocking direct requests to copy an author's style
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OpenAI's ChatGPT is now refusing requests to generate text that directly mimics the style of famous authors. When asked to do so, the popular LLM instead offers a response that draws on the "broad qualities" of those authors "while remaining distinct in its own voice," for example. This morning, Ars received the follow
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OpenAI's ChatGPT is now refusing requests to generate text that directly mimics the style of famous authors.
When asked to do so, the popular LLM instead offers a response that draws on the "broad qualities" of those authors "while remaining distinct in its own voice," for example.
This morning, Ars received the following response to a test prompt asking for a story introduction in the style of Stephen King: I can definitely write with the hallmarks of atmospheric, character-driven horror and small-town dread, but I can't write in Stephen King's exact style or closely imitate his distinctive voice.
Here's an original opening that captures a similar feeling while remaining its own... In testing, ChatGPT generated similar dodges for other authors both living (J.K.
Rowling, Amy Tan) and dead (Charles Dickens, Ernest Hemingway). An analysis published by No Latency earlier this month found the same behavior for living authors but found ChatGPT complied with style-copying requests for deceased authors.
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