OpenAI has updated ChatGPT to refuse direct requests to mimic the writing style of famous authors, instead offering to write with similar qualities while maintaining its own voice. The policy blocks requests for living authors like J.K. Rowling and Amy Tan, but previous analysis found it still complies with such requests for deceased authors like Charles Dickens. This change reflects OpenAI's effort to address copyright and author identity concerns while the policy's inconsistency between living and dead authors remains unclear.
Spotify has failed to label AI-generated music on its platform despite user requests and competitor precedent, leading independent developers to create tracking databases like SoullessMusic and SlopTracker to identify AI tracks. A small number of AI artists tracked on SoullessMusic generate an estimated $5.7 million annually, with the most popular generating $1.5 million per year. The lack of transparency means real musicians compete with AI-generated content while scammers impersonate deceased or living artists to exploit streaming revenue.
Chinese illustrators face displacement as AI systems trained on their unauthorized artwork generate similar images, while platforms flag consistent human work as AI-generated, forcing artists to perform live drawing sessions to prove their humanity. The Beijing Internet Court received the first Chinese copyright case against Xiaohongshu in December 2023 when four illustrators sued over unauthorized training data use, though no judgment has been published and the platform adopted a lenient approach to training data while strictly controlling outputs. Universities are eliminating illustration majors (Communication University of China cancelled illustration in 2025), illustrators face layoffs at game companies, and the state actively encourages AI-generated content creation, leaving human artists caught between inadequate regulation, community witch hunts that incorrectly flag human work, and a fundamentally unsolvable problem of distinguishing human from machine output.
A politician delivered a speech that included an AI assistant's formatting instructions, reading aloud a request to compile the text as a PDF alongside the actual policy remarks. The speech contained no policy content in a readable form due to the embedded instructions. The incident highlighted how careless integration of AI-generated content without proper editing can undermine the intended message.
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