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Re:DeepSeek V4–almost on the frontier, a fraction of the price by SyneRyder on Saturday May 02, 2026 @02:09PM (#47988824)
It's probably because you were talking about a quote from a book (ie copyrighted material). Authors have sued the AI companies for repeating / memorizing copyrighted works, and getting an AI to discuss a quote would be making it repeat a portion of copyrighted work.

Funny that your case is Kurt Vonnegut. I think I had Claude refuse a task where I was doing an OCR scan of a book review (in a zine / journal a family member published years ago). I think the review might have included a Vonnegut quote as well, and that I ultimately figured it out it was the quote that was making Claude refuse. I may be misremembering the author though.

Mistral had no such refusals, but their OCR is lesser quality.

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Re:DeepSeek V4–almost on the frontier, a fraction of the price by wmwmwm on Saturday May 02, 2026 @02:30PM (#47989034)
Joseph Heller methinks, but probably not too far away in embedding space!
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Re:DeepSeek V4–almost on the frontier, a fraction of the price by SyneRyder on Saturday May 02, 2026 @02:54PM (#47989273)
OMG. Where did I get Kurt Vonnegut from? I swear I saw that name in the post and the whole time I was thinking "but he didn't write Catch 22"... I must be fuzzier brained than I thought tonight. Thank you for being kind with your correction.

Hopefully I'm still correct that quoting from books is a reason for some over-zealous task refusals, though.

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Re:DeepSeek V4–almost on the frontier, a fraction of the price by andriy_koval on Monday May 04, 2026 @04:47PM (#48014755)
> Authors have sued the AI companies for repeating / memorizing copyrighted works, and getting an AI to discuss a quote would be making it repeat a portion of copyrighted work.

short quotes are fair use..

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