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That's a public domain text. So, yes, it can do it. I stand corrected there. But can you coax a copyrighted text out of it?

When I ask it for anything from Game of Thrones it refuses beyond offering a summary.

But this is all begging the question.

How are you going to codify that? "You can't feed my text into an algorithm that has the ability to reproduce it"?

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I also tested this with Harry Potter books (which are still not public domain AFAIK). It starts auto-completing the correct words quickly, and then hangs and eventually stops producing output. You can call the API to generate more tokens, but it stops again after producing a few more correct words.

I think for a few high-profile authors (for books like Harry Potter and Game of Thrones), OpenAI probably installed some output filters in order to not get sued too hard. Of course, I can't definitively check that without access to the raw model. Which OpenAI conveniently doesn't provide.

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