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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

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This is rich considering LLMs can't even write like an average person let alone famous authors

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If they can "obviously write like anyone", why do they universally write like crap? Wouldn't the AI companies want them to write like someone who can write

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

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This 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.

The base models were really good at this. These days even the "base" models are full of awful synthetic data.

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

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This is rich considering LLMs can't even write like an average person let alone famous authors

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> LLMs can obviously write like anyone

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.

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

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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.

Gee maybe building a business on top of mass ip theft might have consequences

Yeah, but only if your company is in the US. I start thinking that SpaceX's data-centers-in-space plan, despite the physical inefficiency, is the only way forward.

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

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Doesn'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?

Do you think people behind DeepSeek don't have their own interests? And people/parties controlling people behind DeepSeek?

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.

Something that looks a bit like another thing isn't the same thing.

No amount of prompting would get you Aristotle's actual lost work.

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?

Truesight is a spell in D&D that allows you to see the true being behind an illusion or other deception.

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.

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.

Some people read for pleasure.
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