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Subject: Study: Meta AI model can reproduce almost half of Harry Potter book
Date: 23 Jun 2025 18:40:13 GMT
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https://arstechnica.com/features/2025/06/study-metas-llama-3-1-can-recall-42-percent-of-the-first-harry-potter-book/


	In recent years, numerous plaintiffs--including publishers
	of books, newspapers, computer code, and photographs--have
	sued AI companies for training models using copyrighted
	material. A key question in all of these lawsuits has been
	how easily AI models produce verbatim excerpts from the
	plaintiffs' copyrighted content.

....
....

	These results give everyone in the AI copyright debate
	something to latch onto. For AI industry critics, the big
	takeaway is that--at least for some models and some
	books--memorization is not a fringe phenomenon.

	On the other hand, the study only found significant
	memorization of a few popular books. For example, the
	researchers found that Llama 3.1 70B only memorized 0.13
	percent of Sandman Slim, a 2009 novel by author Richard
	Kadrey. That's a tiny fraction of the 42 percent figure for
	Harry Potter.

and of course some wag immediately asked if Meta AI can quote the
end of "A Song of Ice and Fire"...
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