

David Newhoff
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@DavidLNewhoff
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🚨New paper on AI & Copyright 👨⚖️Courts have credited LLM companies' claims that safety alignment prevents reproduction of copyrighted expression. But what if fine-tuning on a simple writing task ruins it all? Worse : Fine-tuning on a single author's books (e.g., Murakami) unlocks verbatim recall of copyrighted books from 30+ unrelated authors, sometimes as high as 90%. Joint work with @niloofar_mire (@LTIatCMU), Jane Ginsburg ( @ColumbiaLaw) and my amazing PhD student @irisiris_l (@sbucompsc ) (1/n)🧵





Sam Altman has slammed a new set of #SuperBowlLX ads from its competitor Anthropic, which take aim at OpenAI’s plans to introduce advertising, as “deceptive” and “clearly dishonest.” The ads feature the line, “Ads are coming to AI. But not to Claude.” OpenAI said last month it will begin testing ads on ChatGPT’s free and low-cost U.S. tiers, pledging that user data and conversations will “never” be sold to advertisers. variety.com/2026/digital/n…

Attorney General Pam Bondi’s brother and his corporate clients keep benefitting from unusually favorable outcomes on cases before the Justice Department. It doesn’t pass the smell test. @CongressMin and I are demanding answers. Read our letter:





"Unregulated artificial intelligence is a new pandemic. Parents know it. Consumers know it. Educators know it. State lawmakers know it. And Members of Congress know it." illusionofmore.com/americans-wont…

