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ChatGPT starts blocking direct requests to copy an author's style

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Re: ChatGPT starts blocking direct requests to copy an author's style

#21
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

Re: ChatGPT starts blocking direct requests to copy an author's style

#22

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.

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.

Re: ChatGPT starts blocking direct requests to copy an author's style

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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.

Useless. The work is still lost or abandoned.

Re: ChatGPT starts blocking direct requests to copy an author's style

#25

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.

> who should adapt, not obstruct.

Lol, why do you talk like cartoon evil villan? As if AI and its boosters were not hated enough.

Of course AI companies should respect the rest of society. And of course non-ai interests should by protected.

Re: ChatGPT starts blocking direct requests to copy an author's style

#28

What about public domain authored works style?

Yep, good question.

It should be able to still do Doyle anywhere, for example.

Also it should detect that you're in the EU/UK and allow Orwell.

And I'm only mentioning authors that have their entire work in the public domain.

Re: ChatGPT starts blocking direct requests to copy an author's style

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

> truesight of obscure forum posters What does this mean?

It's almost like a claudeism
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