3 papers
cs.CL2026
Generative AI floods and dilutes the market for books
Tuhin Chakrabarty, Xinyue Liu, Jane C. Ginsburg +1
Generative AI can produce book-length works of fiction at near-zero cost. These books are often dismissed as low-quality ``slop'' that buyers will ignore, and are assumed to carry…
cs.CL2026
Alignment Whack-a-Mole : Finetuning Activates Verbatim Recall of Copyrighted Books in Large Language Models
Xinyue Liu, Niloofar Mireshghallah, Jane C. Ginsburg +1
Frontier LLM companies have repeatedly assured courts and regulators that their models do not store copies of training data. They further rely on safety alignment strategies via RL…
cs.CL2026
Readers Prefer Outputs of AI Trained on Copyrighted Books over Expert Human Writers
Tuhin Chakrabarty, Jane C. Ginsburg, Paramveer Dhillon
The use of copyrighted books for training AI has sparked lawsuits from authors concerned about AI generating derivative content. Yet whether these models can produce high-quality l…