ChatGPT now refuses to copy writers' styles
OpenAI
Perplexity AI
Google/DeepMind
Anthropic
Microsoft
OpenAI's ChatGPT now declines requests to generate text directly imitating the styles of famous writers, offering instead to write in a manner based on 'general qualities' while preserving its own unique style. This change likely has legal significance as OpenAI faces lawsuits from authors alleging copyright infringement.
Journalists from Ars Technica found that ChatGPT refused to write in the style of Stephen King, offering only to convey a 'similar feeling'. Further testing showed the chatbot refuses to copy the style of living authors like J.K. Rowling and Amy Tan, as well as deceased ones like Charles Dickens and Ernest Hemingway, though in some cases it still agreed to copy the style of deceased writers. This shift likely has legal implications as OpenAI continues litigation with authors accusing it of copyright infringement. U.S. laws do not cover authorial style itself, but such text could qualify as copyright violation if 'substantial similarity' to an original work is proven. The Authors Guild advises against using generative AI to deliberately copy or imitate unique styles. OpenAI's DALL·E 3 also rejects requests to create images in the style of living artists; Perplexity platform similarly refuses to copy writer styles, while Google Gemini freely fulfills such requests, and Anthropic Claude and Microsoft Copilot do so but warn about potential abuse.
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