ChatGPT can no longer help rip off your favorite author
OpenAI's ChatGPT has updated its policy to no longer generate text that mimics a specific author's style on request. The model now declines such prompts and instead offers to produce content inspired by broader characteristics of the author. This change aims to address concerns about plagiarism and copyright infringement.
- ▪ChatGPT will refuse requests to write in the exact style of a named author.
- ▪Users requesting author-specific imitation are redirected to a more generic, inspirational approach.
- ▪The policy shift follows criticism that the model was being used to produce derivative works that could violate copyright.
- ▪OpenAI says the update helps protect intellectual property while still allowing creative assistance.
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| Original publisher | Android Authority |
| Canonical URL | https://www.androidauthority.com/chatgpt-author-style-change-3691931/ |
| Publication time | Tue, 28 Jul 2026 10:37:28 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-07-28T10:59:35.201Z |
| Last seen | 2026-07-28T10:59:35.201Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | ACh_-ilLbTG5 · 1 stories |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
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| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
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