ChatGPT is now refusing requests to write in famous authors' styles

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ChatGPT is now refusing requests to write in famous author styles. More on that coming up. But first, the latest development out of the social media network, formerly known as Twitter, is a financial services platform dubbed X Money. The service is currently available for the social media networks, premium and premium plus subscribers in the US over the age of 18, following an invite-only beta phase. X Money offers customers a deposit account, peer-to-peer payments, and a debit card within the app. The venture has integrations with both Visa and Apple Wallet. The debit card is available digitally and as a physical, metal version that can be personalized with the individual's X handle. Other perks include up to 6.00% APY, 3% cash back bonuses, no foreign transaction fees, and early direct deposit. The interest rate you receive depends on factors like your X subscription tier or regular deposits, and as with many similar schemes, there is a list of services excluded from cash back. Although X Payments LLC is not an FDIC-insured bank, deposits are held at Cross River Bank, which is a member of FDIC, and so balances are insured. We knew that a payments app was in the works from X, just one of many initiatives the company is working on in pursuit of becoming an everything app. I'm not sure who would interest their money to a platform run by Elon Musk and centered on an AI chatbot, but if you so desperately want to, the option exists.
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ChatGPT is now refusing requests to write in famous author styles, whether they're dead or alive. ChatGPT has been refusing to copy the voices and styles of popular authors. Ars Technica reports, Indeed, we have recently seen posts on social media about the Chatbot not letting users mimic specific authors writing anymore. Ars Technica says the Chatbot didn't comply with its props to imitate the styles of both living and dead authors during testing. That means OpenAI has recently changed how it deals with such requests. As a recent study by publication No Latency showed that ChatGPT didn't refuse them for dead authors. We tested it for ourselves and found Ars Technica's observations consistent with our results. Upon asking ChatGPT to copy the style of Agatha Christie for a mystery story about a woman investigating the sudden disappearance of her husband, the Chatbot told us it couldn't do what I was asking for. Agatha Christie's works are still under copyright, so I can't provide text that closely imitates her distinctive style, the Chatbot responded. However, it did provide us with writing possessing qualities Christie is known for. ChatGPT continued, I can certainly write something with those characteristics while remaining original. The fact that the AI Chatbot still offers to write something with the same qualities an author is known for makes it seem like its refusal to copy Christie's style in our test It was just a disclaimer and not a hard no.
Indeed, this could be a change OpenAI has adopted in order to avoid getting into more legal trouble and to fend off more copyright lawsuits than it's already facing.