AI "writers" are seething after ChatGPT began refusing requests to mimic a specific author's style, living or dead.

Cross posted from https://sh.itjust.works/post/64309674

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It only took them three and a half years, but the powers that be at OpenAI have apparently directed ChatGPT to start refusing requests to copy a specific author’s style, Ars Technica reports. And it’s causing an absolute meltdown among “writers” who had grown accustomed to using the chatbot to churn out stories.

    • AceFuzzLord@lemmy.zip
      2·
      3 days ago

      These hack “writers” should genuinely just suck up their pride and write fanfiction for a show/movie/book/game/whatever they like. It’s a pretty good way to get into writing on a low stakes level without needing to worry about needing to be a professional writer.

      Just drop the genAI and go under a new pen name/handle that nobody knows you under and you can try to find joy in writing without the financial pressure of hoping nobody will notice you are not an actual writer, but instead a clanker dick sucker.

      But we all know they would never taken this advice because all these hacks want is quick and easy money without having to get off their 5 ton ass or actually do any work. They’re probably too lazy to even read your comment without needing genAI to summarize it, so no way they’d actually take sound advice.

  • bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works
    12·
    5 days ago

    And this is the root issue. Because its still all controlled by a piece of shit billionaire human scum that should be put down like a rabid dog (per bill burr).

    Maybe I’d be for using these tools if they were publicly owned and powered from renewable energy only and any profits made from them go to all the lowest income families by default. I can get behind that. Its still a shit tool for many many tasks, but I can see it for data analysis or potentially to help those with disabilities. Using it for writing is something only the stupidest humans would do, and they should have “idiot” tattooed on their forehead for doing so.

    Its all about the way it’s used, and it lends itself very well to be used for evil, so I’d much rather have it destroyed.

  • Tikiporch@lemmy.world
    5·
    4 days ago

    So you figure out how to describe their style and you put that in? You only need to do that once, copy/paste is forever.

    Also, can you not have it mimic the style of public domain works?