Snaring AI: The Rise of Copyright Traps

In the war against AI plagiarism, authors are fighting back with sneaky, invisible traps.

In the era of generative AI, creators have struggled to protect their work from being scraped by AI models without consent. Enter "copyright traps," a clever innovation by Imperial College London researchers.

These traps, akin to fake locations on a map, allow writers to mark their work with hidden text, enabling detection if used in AI training. This breakthrough comes amidst high-profile lawsuits like The New York Times vs. OpenAI. The traps are created using gibberish sentences injected repeatedly into a text, making them detectable by models trained on that data.

While not foolproof, they present a formidable challenge to unauthorized use. Can such inventive measures ensure fair play in the digital age, or will it be an endless game of cat and mouse?

Read the full article on MIT Technology Review.

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