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> More on-topic: if the NYT thinks that GPT-4 is replicating their style then [as anybody who has tried to do creative writing work can testify to] they need to fire all their writers.

The complaint isn’t that ChatGPT is imitating New York Times style by default.

The complaint is that you can ask it to write “in the style of New York Times” and it will do so.

I don’t know if this argument has any legal merit, but it’s not as simple as you suggest. It’s the textual parallel to having AI image generators mimic the trademark style of artists. We know it can be done, the question is what does it mean legally.

>>Aurorn+(OP)
All ai image generators can produce copyrighted works exactly. The level of modification is often barely more than you would get than if you slapped a filter on a copyrighted image in photoshop.

>>Aurorn+(OP)
The writing of the new york times is so diffuse (they even have their own published style guide!) that it's impossible to make a claim to any "style", as there are undoubtedly millions upon millions of lines of text by authors who have been inspired by the NYT.