ChatGPT can no longer help rip off your favorite author

Credit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR ChatGPT now refuses requests to write in a famous author’s exact style. Instead, it offers original text inspired by an author’s broader characteristics. The change comes as OpenAI continues defending itself against multiple copyright lawsuits.

OpenAI has quietly changed how ChatGPT responds to requests to write like famous authors. When you ask to copy a writer’s voice, the AI now declines the request and offers to capture the “broad qualities” or general mood of the author’s genre while writing in its own distinct voice.