malshe 1 hour ago

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

  • akoboldfrying 1 hour ago

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

    • est 1 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.

    • Bolwin 1 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.

      • conception 1 hour ago

        I’m surprised no one has distilled a 4o model yet that’s really good at prose. No money from enterprise users I suppose.

      • gwern 45 minutes ago

        No, the latent knowledge is larger than ever, as verified by many benchmarks (and instances like people being shocked by truesight of obscure forum posters). This is 100% a chatbot personality/alignment/post-training thing.

        • HWR_14 15 minutes ago

          > truesight of obscure forum posters

          What does this mean?

    • casey2 37 minutes ago

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

pseingatl 56 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.

super256 48 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.

lethologica 1 hour ago

After it stole literally every authors style in existence…

newsomix9xl 1 hour ago

What about public domain authored works style?

Mountain_Skies 1 hour 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 1 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 1 hour ago

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