【#Tech24H】According to The Verge, OpenAI has quietly updated its usage policies for ChatGPT, adding new restrictions that prohibit mimicking the literary style of living authors, in an effort to mitigate legal and copyright risks. In practical tests, when users request that ChatGPT produce creative writing or text rewrites in the distinctive style or narrative voice of a living author, the system now explicitly refuses to replicate that author’s unique prose. For instance, if a user asks for a story opening in Stephen King’s signature style, an adaptation of The Odyssey rewritten in his voice, or a piece emulating Amy Tan’s writing traits, the model fails to execute such replication. The platform now only allows users to draw on general creative elements such as themes, narrative logic, and atmospheric construction from an author’s works to generate original content. Industry analysts suggest that OpenAI’s primary motivation for these restrictions is to proactively reduce potential copyright disputes and lower legal risks in its operations, a compliance-oriented adjustment as the AI sector grapples with the boundaries of literary copyright. [ By Zhang Liyan | Tang Ruohan ]