Do LLMs Know to Respect Copyright Notice?

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Hauptverfasser: Xu, Jialiang, Li, Shenglan, Xu, Zhaozhuo, Zhang, Denghui
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author Xu, Jialiang
Li, Shenglan
Xu, Zhaozhuo
Zhang, Denghui
author_facet Xu, Jialiang
Li, Shenglan
Xu, Zhaozhuo
Zhang, Denghui
contents Prior study shows that LLMs sometimes generate content that violates copyright. In this paper, we study another important yet underexplored problem, i.e., will LLMs respect copyright information in user input, and behave accordingly? The research problem is critical, as a negative answer would imply that LLMs will become the primary facilitator and accelerator of copyright infringement behavior. We conducted a series of experiments using a diverse set of language models, user prompts, and copyrighted materials, including books, news articles, API documentation, and movie scripts. Our study offers a conservative evaluation of the extent to which language models may infringe upon copyrights when processing user input containing protected material. This research emphasizes the need for further investigation and the importance of ensuring LLMs respect copyright regulations when handling user input to prevent unauthorized use or reproduction of protected content. We also release a benchmark dataset serving as a test bed for evaluating infringement behaviors by LLMs and stress the need for future alignment.
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spellingShingle Do LLMs Know to Respect Copyright Notice?
Xu, Jialiang
Li, Shenglan
Xu, Zhaozhuo
Zhang, Denghui
Computation and Language
Prior study shows that LLMs sometimes generate content that violates copyright. In this paper, we study another important yet underexplored problem, i.e., will LLMs respect copyright information in user input, and behave accordingly? The research problem is critical, as a negative answer would imply that LLMs will become the primary facilitator and accelerator of copyright infringement behavior. We conducted a series of experiments using a diverse set of language models, user prompts, and copyrighted materials, including books, news articles, API documentation, and movie scripts. Our study offers a conservative evaluation of the extent to which language models may infringe upon copyrights when processing user input containing protected material. This research emphasizes the need for further investigation and the importance of ensuring LLMs respect copyright regulations when handling user input to prevent unauthorized use or reproduction of protected content. We also release a benchmark dataset serving as a test bed for evaluating infringement behaviors by LLMs and stress the need for future alignment.
title Do LLMs Know to Respect Copyright Notice?
topic Computation and Language
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.01136