2 papers
cs.LG2025
Machine Unlearning Doesn't Do What You Think: Lessons for Generative AI Policy and Research
A. Feder Cooper, Christopher A. Choquette-Choo, Miranda Bogen +34
"Machine unlearning" is a popular proposed solution for mitigating the existence of content in an AI model that is problematic for legal or moral reasons, including privacy, copyri…
cs.CY2025
The Files are in the Computer: On Copyright, Memorization, and Generative AI
A. Feder Cooper, James Grimmelmann
The New York Times's copyright lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft alleges OpenAI's GPT models have "memorized" NYT articles. Other lawsuits make similar claims. But parties, cour…