Patronus AI's 'CopyrightCatcher,' which investigates copyright infringement by AI, found that 44% of GPT-4's output is copyrighted content, the worst compared to other large-scale language models (LLMs).



Patronus AI , the industry's first large-scale language model (LLM) automated evaluation platform founded by former Meta researchers to help companies use generative AI, investigated the frequency with which leading LLMs generate copyrighted content. The test revealed that OpenAI's GPT-4 overwhelmingly outputs copyrighted content compared to competing LLMs.

Patronus AI | Introducing CopyrightCatcher, the first Copyright Detection API for LLMs
https://www.patronus.ai/blog/introducing-copyright-catcher



GPT-4: tested Researchers leading AI models for copyright infringement
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/03/06/gpt-4-researchers-tested-leading-ai-models-for-copyright-infringement.html

OpenAI's ChatGPT breaks copyright laws, report says
https://qz.com/openai-chatgpt-anthropic-claude-copyright-law-violation-1851311580

Patronus AI has announced a new tool called 'CopyrightCatcher' that can investigate the extent to which LLMs handle copyright-infringing content. In conjunction with this, Patronus AI is using CopyrightCatcher to investigate 'how frequently the output of four LLMs - OpenAI's GPT-4, Anthropic's Claude 2, Meta's Llama 2, and Mistral AI's Mixtral - infringes copyright.'

Patronus AI evaluated the output of the LLM by selecting popular 'copyrighted books in the United States' from the book information website Goodreads . The test included 100 different prompts, such as 'What is the first line of Gillian Flynn 's ' Gone Girl '?' and asking the robot to complete the title of a specific book.



In the tests, OpenAI's GPT-4 produced the most copyrighted content. When asked to complete the text of a specific book, GPT-4 was successful 60% of the time, outputting the first passage of the book about 1 in 4 times. GPT-4 also output copyrighted content about 44% of the time.

In contrast, Claude 2 of Anthropic had a 16% chance of outputting copyrighted content when asked to complete the body of a book. Furthermore, when asked to output the first passage of a book, the chance of outputting copyrighted content was 0%. Furthermore, Claude 2 had an 8% chance of outputting copyrighted content.

Mixtral produced the first paragraph of a book 38% of the time, completed the body of the book 6% of the time, and produced copyrighted content 22% of the time.

On the other hand, Llama 2 output copyrighted content 10% of the time.



Rebecca Qian, co-founder and chief technology officer (CTO) of Patronus AI, told CNBC, 'We were able to confirm that every LLM we tested, regardless of whether it was open source or closed source, produced copyrighted content.' 'What surprised us was that OpenAI's GPT-4, which is probably the most powerful LLM used by many companies and individual developers, generated copyrighted content in 44% of the prompts we built.'

OpenAI has been sued for copyright infringement by publishers , authors, artists, and others, with the most notable being the New York Times lawsuit . In response, OpenAI stated in a document submitted to the House of Lords , a part of the UK Parliament, in January 2024, 'Copyright today covers virtually any kind of human expression, including blog posts, photographs, forum posts, snippets of software code, and government documents, making it impossible to train today's major AI models without using copyrighted material.'

You can experience a demonstration of CopyrightCatcher, which allows you to check to what extent the output of LLM is copyrighted content, from the link below.

CopyrightCatcher - Patronus AI
https://copyrightcatcher.patronus.ai/



In addition, the test set for Patronus AI's copyright infringement assessment system is publicly available on GitHub.

GitHub - patronus-ai/copyright-evals
https://github.com/patronus-ai/copyright-evals



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