From the complaint linked from the article on The Verge:
88. Until very recently, ChatGPT could be prompted to return quotations of text from copyrighted books with a good degree of accuracy, suggesting that the underlying LLM must have ingested these books in their entireties during its “training.” 89. Now, however, ChatGPT generally responds to such prompts with the statement, “I can’t provide verbatim excerpts from copyrighted texts.” Thus, while ChatGPT previously provided such excerpts and in principle retains the capacity to do so, it has been restrained from doing so, if only temporarily, by its programmers. 90. In light of its timing, this apparent revision of ChatGPT’s output rules is likely a response to the type of activism on behalf of authors exemplified by the Open Letter addressed to OpenAI and other companies by Plaintiff The Authors Guild, which is discussed further below.