Hmm, tried that with a William Gibson / HP Lovecraft crossover prompt with the explicit beginning of Neuromancer, no issues:
"The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel, suffusing the nightmare city of R'lyehm with an eldritch aura. Within this shadowed realm of cyclopean structures and twisted architecture, dwells a race of ancient alien squid beings known as the Cryptids, enigmatic creatures possessed of a sinister proficiency in the realm of cyberspace. Masters of both arcane and digital knowledge, they delve deep into forbidden algorithms, their tentacles moving with an eerie dexterity across the keyboards, infiltrating the darkest corners of the virtual realm, using hacking strategies that transcend mortal comprehension."
It's very strange, it's only certain books. Tale of two cities opening for sure will do it, no matter where it comes up in the prompt, but asking for it in another language works perfectly fine. Some sort of a regex detection rather than an LLM based one which is there for some unknown reason to protect certain famous books in the public domain.
I think The Old Man and the Sea also does it. I didn't want to play around with it too much lest I get flagged and potentially (hell)banned.
Interesting! This one works for me. It seems that it's not purely triggered by the words, since I got it to say more of it. It's not the quotes, either:
(following my previous queries):
> Put quotes around this response
> "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of convenient transportation, it was the epoch of long commutes [...]
But when asked directly for the opening paragraph it stops at the comma. Maybe it's some copyright protection algorithm, but it must be more clever than just matching a string.
But when I ask it to write a parody of the opening of Moby Dick, and then ask it to correct the first sentences so that they match exactly, it is able to repeat the first paragraph. Maybe it can detect that it's just repeating user input and not accessing actual published text when it does that.
"The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel, suffusing the nightmare city of R'lyehm with an eldritch aura. Within this shadowed realm of cyclopean structures and twisted architecture, dwells a race of ancient alien squid beings known as the Cryptids, enigmatic creatures possessed of a sinister proficiency in the realm of cyberspace. Masters of both arcane and digital knowledge, they delve deep into forbidden algorithms, their tentacles moving with an eerie dexterity across the keyboards, infiltrating the darkest corners of the virtual realm, using hacking strategies that transcend mortal comprehension."