ChatGPT quietly set up a wall for writing style: no longer imitating the writing style of living writers. OpenAI recently quietly added a new line of restrictions to ChatGPT’s rules - no longer completely imitating the writing style of living writers.

ChatGPT quietly set up a wall on writing style: no longer imitate the writing style of living writers. OpenAI recently quietly added a new line of restrictions to ChatGPT’s rules - no longer completely reproduce the exclusive writing style of living writers. This adjustment was not announced with much fanfare, but was quietly written into the functional rules. The purpose is straightforward: to narrow the space for copyright violations. According to actual measurements, this wall has already been erected. When a user requests to imitate the beginning of a story, adapt a classic text, or create a creation based on the characteristics of a living writer, ChatGPT will directly reject the complete reproduction of the other party's unique writing style and language rhythm. For example, if you ask it to start with the style of Stephen King, rewrite "The Odyssey" in the style of the horror master, or imitate Amy Tan's accent, the system will no longer accept the request. What it is willing to do is to draw on common creative elements such as subject matter, narrative logic, and atmosphere shaping to produce truly original content. Interestingly, this wall only blocks living people. Faced with long-dead writers such as Charles Dickens, Ernest Hemingway, and William Shakespeare, users have put forward demands for imitation and style reproduction, but ChatGPT still responds and writes as usual. The legal theory behind this is not complicated. The current copyright-related laws and regulations in the United States only protect the specific textual expressions originally created by the author, and do not erect a copyright fence for abstract writing styles. The judgment of the industry is that the core of OpenAI’s introduction of this restriction is to actively compress the space for potential copyright disputes and reduce the company’s operational risks by another level. This is a compliance trial in the artificial intelligence industry with a defensive attitude on the boundary of literary creation copyright. When generative AI can speak and write more and more like a certain person, the copyright ownership of replicating the creator's writing style and using existing works for secondary creation has long been the focus of the global AI industry and the literary field. Relevant industry regulations and legal details are still being slowly completed, and the new wall ChatGPT is just another brick that has been quietly erected in this tug of war. via AI News (author: AI Base)