5 papers
In the Mood to Exclude: Revitalizing Trespass to Chattels in the Era of GenAI Scraping
David Atkinson
GenAI companies are strip-mining the web. Their scraping bots harvest content at an unprecedented scale, circumventing technical barriers to fuel billion-dollar models while creato…
Open Shouldn't Mean Exempt: Open-Source Exceptionalism and Generative AI
David Atkinson
Open-source status should not shield generative artificial intelligence systems from ethical or legal accountability. Through a rigorous analysis of regulatory, legal, and policy f…
Unfair Learning: GenAI Exceptionalism and Copyright Law
David Atkinson
This paper challenges the argument that generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) is entitled to broad immunity from copyright law for reproducing copyrighted works without author…
Putting GenAI on Notice: GenAI Exceptionalism and Contract Law
David Atkinson
Gathering enough data to create sufficiently useful training datasets for generative artificial intelligence requires scraping most public websites. The scraping is conducted using…
Token Erasure as a Footprint of Implicit Vocabulary Items in LLMs
Sheridan Feucht, David Atkinson, Byron Wallace +1
LLMs process text as sequences of tokens that roughly correspond to words, where less common words are represented by multiple tokens. However, individual tokens are often semantic…