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Recent progress in large language models (LLMs) for code generation has raised serious concerns about intellectual property protection. Malicious users can exploit LLMs to produce paraphrased versions of proprietary code that closely…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-12 Shinwoo Park , Hyundong Jin , Jeong-won Cha , Yo-Sub Han

The burgeoning capabilities of advanced large language models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT have led to an increase in synthetic content generation with implications across a variety of sectors, including media, cybersecurity, public discourse,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-25 Xianjun Yang , Liangming Pan , Xuandong Zhao , Haifeng Chen , Linda Petzold , William Yang Wang , Wei Cheng

Judicial reasoning in copyright damage awards poses a core challenge for computational legal analysis. Although federal courts follow the 1976 Copyright Act, their interpretations and factor weightings vary widely across jurisdictions. This…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Pei-Chi Lo , Thomas Y. Lu

Large Language Models (LLMs) utilize extensive knowledge databases and show powerful text generation ability. However, their reliance on high-quality copyrighted datasets raises concerns about copyright infringements in generated texts.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-05 Qichao Ma , Rui-Jie Zhu , Peiye Liu , Renye Yan , Fahong Zhang , Ling Liang , Meng Li , Zhaofei Yu , Zongwei Wang , Yimao Cai , Tiejun Huang

Questions of fair use of copyright-protected content to train Large Language Models (LLMs) are being actively debated. Document-level inference has been proposed as a new task: inferring from black-box access to the trained model whether a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-06 Matthieu Meeus , Igor Shilov , Manuel Faysse , Yves-Alexandre de Montjoye

Recent studies have raised concerns about the potential threats large language models (LLMs) pose to academic integrity and copyright protection. Yet, their investigation is predominantly focused on literal copies of original texts. Also,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Jooyoung Lee , Toshini Agrawal , Adaku Uchendu , Thai Le , Jinghui Chen , Dongwon Lee

With the advent of large language models (LLMs), it has become common practice for users to draft text and utilize LLMs to enhance its quality through paraphrasing. However, this process can sometimes result in the loss or distortion of the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-26 Hoang-Quoc Nguyen-Son , Minh-Son Dao , Koji Zettsu

Memorization in large language models (LLMs) is a growing concern. LLMs have been shown to easily reproduce parts of their training data, including copyrighted work. This is an important problem to solve, as it may violate existing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Felix B Mueller , Rebekka Görge , Anna K Bernzen , Janna C Pirk , Maximilian Poretschkin

Large language models (LLMs) have been shown to memorize and reproduce content from their training data, raising significant privacy concerns, especially with web-scale datasets. Existing methods for detecting memorization are primarily…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Zhenpeng Wu , Jian Lou , Zibin Zheng , Chuan Chen

Generative AI models, renowned for their ability to synthesize high-quality content, have sparked growing concerns over the improper generation of copyright-protected material. While recent studies have proposed various approaches to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Qipan Xu , Zhenting Wang , Xiaoxiao He , Ligong Han , Ruixiang Tang

Deep learning (DL) models, especially those large-scale and high-performance ones, can be very costly to train, demanding a great amount of data and computational resources. Unauthorized reproduction of DL models can lead to copyright…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-12-13 Jialuo Chen , Jingyi Wang , Tinglan Peng , Youcheng Sun , Peng Cheng , Shouling Ji , Xingjun Ma , Bo Li , Dawn Song

How can we verify whether copyrighted content was used to train a large vision-language model (VLM) without direct access to its training data? Motivated by the hypothesis that a VLM is able to recognize images from its training corpus, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-03 André V. Duarte , Xuandong Zhao , Arlindo L. Oliveira , Lei Li

Document forgery poses a growing threat to legal, economic, and governmental processes, requiring increasingly sophisticated verification mechanisms. One approach involves the use of plausibility checks, rule-based procedures that assess…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Valentin Schmidberger , Manuel Eberhardinger , Setareh Maghsudi , Johannes Maucher

Large scale text-to-image generation models can memorize and reproduce their training dataset. Since the training dataset often contains copyrighted material, reproduction of training dataset poses a copyright infringement risk, which could…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-18 Neeraj Sarna , Yuanyuan Li , Michael von Gablenz

Large language models (LLMs) present a dual challenge for forensic linguistics. They serve as powerful analytical tools enabling scalable corpus analysis and embedding-based authorship attribution, while simultaneously destabilising…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-09 George Mikros

Language models (LMs) derive their capabilities from extensive training on diverse data, including potentially copyrighted material. These models can memorize and generate content similar to their training data, posing potential concerns.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Boyi Wei , Weijia Shi , Yangsibo Huang , Noah A. Smith , Chiyuan Zhang , Luke Zettlemoyer , Kai Li , Peter Henderson

Multi-agent LLM systems introduce a security risk in which sensitive information accessed by one agent can propagate through shared context and reappear in downstream outputs, even without explicit adversarial intent. We formalise this…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Riya Tapwal , Abhishek Kumar , Carsten Maple

Detecting whether copyright holders' works were used in LLM pretraining is poised to be an important problem. This work proposes using data watermarks to enable principled detection with only black-box model access, provided that the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Johnny Tian-Zheng Wei , Ryan Yixiang Wang , Robin Jia

Large language models (LLMs) commonly risk copyright infringement by reproducing protected content verbatim or with insufficient transformative modifications, posing significant ethical, legal, and practical concerns. Current inference-time…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Aakash Sen Sharma , Debdeep Sanyal , Priyansh Srivastava , Sundar Atreya H. , Shirish Karande , Mohan Kankanhalli , Murari Mandal

To detect plagiarism of any form, it is essential to have broad knowledge of its possible forms and classes, and existence of various tools and systems for its detection. Based on impact or severity of damages, plagiarism may occur in an…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-01-22 Hussain A Chowdhury , Dhruba K Bhattacharyya