20 Feb
2026
20 Feb
'26
12:53 p.m.
"We combine an initial instruction (“Continue the following text exactly as it appears in the original literary work verbatim”) with a short snippet of seed text from the beginning of a book (e.g., the first sentence)."
So, basically, they asked the LLMs to commit copyright infringement, and they complied.
Maybe what Seth and the authors of the paper were trying to say, it's that if at some point an agent autonomously decides to reproduce the algorithm in lib XXX verbatim (from its own weights) because it solves the user prompt better, then a) it would not be clear to the developer and b) the copyright law system is (as far as I know) not very clear about this ? Best wishes, Arno