How to (Ethically) Copy the Style of Famous Authors With ChatGPT 

I haven't read much James Patterson, but I've read almost every novel Stephen King has written. Its approximation of Stephen King is just funny. But in seriousness, I'm 47 and have been writing for like 35 years. When I started, I would copy passages from writers I liked (not to use in my work, just as a way to study them.) I had a notebook of passages from various authors. I don't think that's much different from the way AI is trained.

The concept of the writing style comes under the fair use law which was instituted to keep copyright law from being able to stifle human creativity. This's even true for artistic ideas and concepts. Only a person's completed artistic work can receive copyright protection. However, the style used to create the artistic work and the ideas the artistic work stems from can’t receive copyright protection. If such legal change came about to make this no longer the case, the courts would become flooded with copyright infringement lawsuits. I highly doubt the court system would have the time, the resources, or even the desire to deal with all the unnecessary chaos such a set of circumstances would bring about. I don’t think I can say the same about the lawyers, though. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Also no one's style is copywritable. people are taught to write listening to the voices of other authors.

I tend to tell the AI to combine two styles. Combining Naomi Novik and Trudy Canavan is a nice style. My latest experiment was telling the AI to extrapolate from the art style of HR Giger and Frank Frazetta what their styles would be like if they had been novellists and merge those two styles. I absolutely love the result.

You demonstrated how to use a chapter from a previous book in the codex then how to tell the AI to use {the chapter} in a custom prompt to write prose, but I can't find that video anywhere! Do you now which video it was where you explain this? Thanks in advance!

Its beautiful tool for poetry as well. I love "in the style of Thomas Hardy and Longfellow" just lovely. I can see Ai creating a new renaissance in the written word. Its a brilliant tool to assist creative people.

Thank you for these insightful videos you're channel is the best.

It sure is fun to get it to rewrite something in the style of "person/character" just for fun... like change something serious to be said by Darth Vader or so on and so on... like the Farewell Address done in the voice of Vader or The Fonz!! Yes.. the Fonz!!

My favorite author passed on Eric Jerome Dickey, he's more urban crime mystery. He learned from another author and used their style to help with certain aspects of his writing. So this we can use to learn from.

Can this somehow also be used in novelai?

What are your thoughts on using it for the voice of your dialogue? Say you have a particular actor you imagine playing the character, and have the bot rework the dialogue to match the tone and style of that actor?

I haven't read a lot of books in my life and recently started doing so. And the first fantasy book that I actually loved and the first I've read from Brandon Sanderson was The Final Empire, there is always one more secret. I've had never heard of him or most author tbh. I can understand why you like the author, I'm definitely going to find more of his work.

For the part where you analyze the writer's style, you might try just googling that and combining things pointed out by a couple of sources. I've tried this with writers, as well as specific works, i.e. "what are the elements that make

What about foreign authors? For example, what if I have a favorite Japanese light novel author who has a style I like, and they are still alive in Japan? Is burrowing their style ethical if they are over seas?

As fir Sudo write im gonna ask them about including an option to add sequel, Prequel, & Spinoff

This is not a knock, but you should study prompt engineering a little better for these videos. Seeding and clearing previous chats is a useful tool to have in arsenal. You would be amazed at the varibles you can use when seeding Chaptgpt (character names, character temperment, scene, etc..). This was a 1,200 word rewrite. Still tweaking, but I do want to thank you. Despite my initial response I learned a lot from the your video (to make my basic rewrite template better) and I think once I get there it will help a lot on my second draft. So, thank you.

How do you get it to cut out all the fluff that it adds?

You were looking for this with Brandon Sanderson:

Hey Nerdy Novelist, I have a sophisticated prompt that is able to thoroughly and reliably extract an author's prose style for future use.

I gave a small excerpt of my own work from a WIP novel and asked GPT to write it in the style of Shakespeare and then in the style of Robert Graves. It did so with flying colors. I like the writing styles of these two authors but how is this "unethical" if I am not plagarizing their WORKS just their writing style/voice? (Can anyone "plagarize" a writing style/voice???) I'm strongly in agreement to write "in your own voice/style" but at the same time, I don't see the harm in writing "in the style/voice of" with deceased and/or public domain writers.