Summary of Tackling Genai Copyright Issues: Originality Estimation and Genericization, by Hiroaki Chiba-okabe and Weijie J. Su
Tackling GenAI Copyright Issues: Originality Estimation and Genericization
by Hiroaki Chiba-Okabe, Weijie J. Su
First submitted to arxiv on: 5 Jun 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Applications (stat.AP); Methodology (stat.ME); Machine Learning (stat.ML)
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| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary This paper tackles a pressing issue in the field of generative AI: copyright concerns. With the rapid progress of this technology, numerous lawsuits have been filed against AI developers, highlighting the need for effective mitigation techniques. The authors propose a genericization method that modifies the outputs of a generative model to make them more generic and less likely to imitate copyrighted materials. This approach is based on a new metric for quantifying the level of originality of data, which is estimated by drawing samples from a generative model. The proposed method, PREGen (Prompt Rewriting-Enhanced Genericization), combines this genericization method with an existing mitigation technique, significantly reducing the likelihood of generating copyrighted characters. In particular, when using the names of copyrighted characters as prompts, PREGen reduces the risk by more than half compared to existing methods. Furthermore, while generative models can still produce copyrighted characters even without direct mention of their names in the prompt, PREGen almost entirely prevents this. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This paper is about making sure AI doesn’t copy someone else’s work without permission. With AI getting really good at creating things that look like they’re from other people, there have been lots of lawsuits against the people who make this kind of AI. The authors came up with a new way to make AI-generated content less likely to be copyrighted material. They did this by creating a special metric that measures how original something is, and then using it to modify what the AI generates. This new method, called PREGen, combines their approach with an existing technique that helps prevent copyright issues. When they tested it, they found that PREGen reduced the risk of generating copyrighted characters by more than half when using the names of those characters as prompts. It also almost completely prevented the creation of copyrighted material without mentioning the character’s name in the prompt. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Generative model » Likelihood » Prompt
