Protecting IP in the Age of LLMs

Protecting IP in the Age of LLMs

Selective memory suppression without compromising performance

Obliviate introduces a novel post-training technique that prevents LLMs from reproducing copyrighted content verbatim while maintaining semantic understanding and overall performance.

  • Addresses the growing tension between AI companies and content creators over intellectual property rights
  • Offers more precise control than complete concept removal or simple output filtering
  • Enables selective prevention of verbatim reproduction while preserving model capabilities
  • Represents a practical tool for companies to comply with copyright agreements

This research is crucial for security teams as it provides a technical solution to the legal challenges of deploying LLMs in enterprise environments where IP protection is paramount.

Obliviate: Efficient Unmemorization for Protecting Intellectual Property in Large Language Models

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