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Finetuning Activates Verbatim Recall of Copyrighted Books in LLMs

https://github.com/cauchy221/Alignment-Whack-a-Mole-Code
36•reconnecting•1h ago

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reconnecting•50m ago
Demo: https://cauchy221.github.io/Alignment-Whack-a-Mole/

Arxiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.20957

beautifulfreak•37m ago
Language Models are Injective and Hence Invertible https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.15511
gmerc•27m ago
Ok we can drop the farce now that it isn’t compression at the core, the anthropomorphic bullshit has done the job it was supposed to - Allow us to centralize the knowledge economy at the cost of IP holders and we get to claim the efficiency gains from centralization as the result of technology and force governments to choose “teh future” (and investments ) over maintaining copyright - a massive value reallocation in society

Maybe we can disband the effective altruism cult that helped push it now.

cwillu•19m ago
Intelligence is compression.

And frankly, if this means the end of copyright: good riddance.

strogonoff•16m ago
Copyright is what facilitates copyleft. Getting rid of IP protections also rids us of GPL, which gave us a few things including the most popular OS in the world.

It’s one thing to reject the specifics of IP laws as currently implementated; it’s another thing to celebrate the dismantling of the entire foundation of open source by for-profit corporate interests who sought to do it for decades.

ButlerianJihad•15m ago
Copyright is what enables free and open licenses such as Creative Commons and every version/variant of the GPL. Without copyright, what would become of these licenses, and movements that have espoused them?
userbinator•20m ago
Full book content and model generations are not included because the books are copyrighted and the generations contain large portions of verbatim text.

There are plenty of old books in the public domain already... but I'm not sure what exactly this exercise is supposed to show, since the Kolmogorov limit still stands in the way of "infinite compression".

TFNA•10m ago
I’m a researcher who for over a decade has been scanning my library’s holdings on my particular discipline for my own use, but also uploading the books to the shadow libraries for everyone else’s benefit. The revelation that LLMs are training on the shadow libraries has made me put a lot more effort into ensuring my scans are well-OCRed. The idea that I could eventually ask ChatGPT or whatever about obscure things in my field, and get useful output (of the "trust but verify" sort), is exciting.

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Finetuning Activates Verbatim Recall of Copyrighted Books in LLMs

https://github.com/cauchy221/Alignment-Whack-a-Mole-Code
41•reconnecting•1h ago•13 comments