13 comments

  • super256 15 minutes ago

    Haven't they been doing this for a long time already? I remember trying to copy Hunter S. Thompson's style many moons ago and getting a refusal.

  • malshe an hour ago

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

    • akoboldfrying an hour ago

      Even LLMs from years ago could accurately mimic the style of any sufficiently famous author.

      • est an hour ago

        LLMs from years ago weren't aligned to death like these days. It's hard to get rid of "AI smell" than years ago.

      • casey2 4 minutes ago

        At best it can use some of the same vocabulary. Often not even then.

      • Bolwin an hour ago

        Yeah and it's degraded significantly since then. Older llms were still mostly language focused and had a lot of latent knowledge about things like writing styles. Now it's crowded out in favor of agenetic work, programming etc.

  • pseingatl 23 minutes ago

    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.

  • lethologica an hour ago

    After it stole literally every authors style in existence…

  • newsomix9xl an hour ago

    What about public domain authored works style?

  • Mountain_Skies 40 minutes ago

    Ask the LLM to describe that author's style. Then start a new chat and tell it what you want it to write, giving it the author's style as a guide but without mentioning the author. While I've never used it for this particular purpose, I've used variations of this technique to get around other blocks quite well.

  • quotemstr an hour ago

    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.

    • notfromhere 33 minutes ago

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