ChatGPT has quietly stopped mimicking the writing styles of living authors with copyrighted works amid ongoing lawsuits. When the chatbot launched four years ago, it could mimic writers like Stephen King and JK Rowling, but this led to allegations that OpenAI illegally trained its large language model on copyrighted materials, resulting in lawsuits from living authors and book publishers. Today, ChatGPT will refuse to mimic the tone of authors whose works are still protected by copyright, including local Malaysian writers like Ahadiat Akashah. According to a report by ArsTechnica, an OpenAI representative declined to explain why this feature was abruptly pulled without an official announcement. However, the new guardrails are surprisingly inconsistent, as the chatbot still appears to imitate other living writers like Ramlee Awang Murshid, A Samad Said, and Hilal Asyraf, all of whom are alive and hold copyrights to their respective works.