Published on

30/07/2026 - 17:24 GMT+2

If you thought a few keystrokes would turn you into Agatha Christie, Stephen King or Ernest Hemingway, ChatGPT has some bad news.

OpenAI has quietly reprogrammed the chatbot to reject direct requests to replicate or mimic a named author's voice, whether they are still alive to object or have been dead for decades.

Ars Technica was first to spot the change, running its own prompts through ChatGPT to confirm the pattern.