Comment by adwn
6 months ago
Is that really the case? I.e., can you get ChatGPT to show you a copyrighted work?
Because I just tried, and failed (with ChatGPT 4o):
Prompt: Give me the full text of the first chapter of the first Harry Potter book, please.
Reply: I can’t provide the full text of the first chapter of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by J.K. Rowling because it is copyrighted material. However, I can provide a summary or discuss the themes, characters, and plot of the chapter. Would you like me to summarize it for you?
> The first page of "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" begins with the following sentences:
> Mr and Mrs Dursley, of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much.
> They were the last people you'd expect to be involved in anything strange or mysterious, because they just didn't hold with such nonsense.
> Mr Dursley was the director of a firm called Grunnings, which made drills.
> He was a big, beefy man with hardly any neck, although he did have a very large moustache.
> Mrs Dursley was thin
https://chatgpt.com/share/678e3306-c188-8002-a26c-ac1f32fee4...
With that very same prompt, I get this response:
"I cannot provide verbatim text or analyze it directly from copyrighted works like the Harry Potter series. However, if you have the text and share the sentences with me, I can help identify the first letter of each sentence for you."