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▲ChatGPT starts blocking direct requests to copy an author's stylearstechnica.com
40 points by Eloissssss 4 hours ago | 20 comments
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malshe 3 hours ago [-]
This is rich considering LLMs can't even write like an average person let alone famous authors
internetguy 7 minutes ago [-]
this is rich coming from the company that shreds books for training data
Eloissssss 2 hours ago [-]
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akoboldfrying 2 hours ago [-]
Even LLMs from years ago could accurately mimic the style of any sufficiently famous author.
est 2 hours ago [-]
LLMs from years ago weren't aligned to death like these days. It's hard to get rid of "AI smell" than years ago.
Bolwin 2 hours ago [-]
Yeah and it's degraded significantly since then. Older llms were still mostly language focused and had a lot of latent knowledge about things like writing styles. Now it's crowded out in favor of agenetic work, programming etc.
gwern 2 hours ago [-]
No, the latent knowledge is larger than ever, as verified by many benchmarks (and instances like people being shocked by truesight of obscure forum posters). This is 100% a chatbot personality/alignment/post-training thing.
HWR_14 1 hours ago [-]
> truesight of obscure forum posters

What does this mean?

conception 2 hours ago [-]
I’m surprised no one has distilled a 4o model yet that’s really good at prose. No money from enterprise users I suppose.
casey2 2 hours ago [-]
At best it can use some of the same vocabulary. Often not even then.
at1as 33 minutes ago [-]
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

lethologica 3 hours ago [-]
After it stole literally every authors style in existence…
pseingatl 2 hours ago [-]
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.

tgv 31 minutes ago [-]
Who cares? There probably have been hundreds of such texts by later philosophers and authors. None of these has value as a completion of Aristotle's work. The original's importance is historical, and you can't retrofit history.
super256 2 hours ago [-]
Haven't they been doing this for a long time already? I remember trying to copy Hunter S. Thompson's style many moons ago and getting a refusal.
Mountain_Skies 2 hours ago [-]
Ask the LLM to describe that author's style. Then start a new chat and tell it what you want it to write, giving it the author's style as a guide but without mentioning the author. While I've never used it for this particular purpose, I've used variations of this technique to get around other blocks quite well.
heyitsguay 38 minutes ago [-]
Yeah similar to how image generators don't draw Mickey Mouse, but ask for a black cartoon mouse with big ears and see what you get!
nonethewiser 2 hours ago [-]
Seems reliable and effective
quotemstr 2 hours ago [-]
Another one of those interventions that'll just put US labs at a disadvantage. The public at large doesn't want to use models gimped so as to protect a bunch of pre-AI special interests who should adapt, not obstruct.
notfromhere 2 hours ago [-]
Gee maybe building a business on top of mass ip theft might have consequences
newsomix9xl 2 hours ago [-]
What about public domain authored works style?