This is rich considering LLMs can't even write like an average person let alone famous authors
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Re: ChatGPT starts blocking direct requests to copy an author's style
#32This is rich considering LLMs can't even write like an average person let alone famous authors
Even LLMs from years ago could accurately mimic the style of any sufficiently famous author.
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#33This is rich considering LLMs can't even write like an average person let alone famous authors
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This simply isn't true. An LLM can do a weak parody of a sufficiently-famous author, but they're extremely poor at sustained fiction writing even without trying to emulate a specific style.
Perfect grammar is only a small part of writing well.
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#34Another 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.
Gee maybe building a business on top of mass ip theft might have consequences
Re: ChatGPT starts blocking direct requests to copy an author's style
#35Now this is a thing I don't own, sold as a subscription, and it won't even do what I tell it. And that's pre-enshittification!
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#36I 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?
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#37Doesn'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?
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#38Wuddabout: 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.
No amount of prompting would get you Aristotle's actual lost work.
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#39Earlier 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?
Re: ChatGPT starts blocking direct requests to copy an author's style
#40Wuddabout: 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.