Summary of Exploring Memorization and Copyright Violation in Frontier Llms: a Study Of the New York Times V. Openai 2023 Lawsuit, by Joshua Freeman et al.
Exploring Memorization and Copyright Violation in Frontier LLMs: A Study of the New York Times v. OpenAI 2023 Lawsuit
by Joshua Freeman, Chloe Rippe, Edoardo Debenedetti, Maksym Andriushchenko
First submitted to arxiv on: 9 Dec 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary A machine learning study investigates the propensity of large language models (LLMs) to memorize news articles and reproduce them in their outputs. Recent lawsuits, such as the New York Times v. OpenAI case, have highlighted concerns about copyright infringement in LLMs. The researchers analyze GPT-4 and Claude models from OpenAI, comparing them to other prominent LLMs like Meta’s, Mistral’s, and Anthropic’s. They find that while OpenAI models are less prone to memorization, larger models (beyond 100 billion parameters) demonstrate a greater capacity for memorization. This study has implications for training LLMs to prevent verbatim memorization and raises legal questions about copyright infringement claims and defenses. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary A group of scientists studied how big computer programs called language models remember news articles. Some people are worried that these programs might copy the articles without permission, which is against the law. The researchers looked at three specific programs from a company called OpenAI to see if they remembered articles and repeated them. They found out that these programs don’t repeat articles very often, but bigger programs can remember more. This research helps us understand how to make sure these programs don’t copy things without permission. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Claude » Gpt » Machine learning
