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Grimmelmann calls for other ways to assess copying

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2026-08-18

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Grimmelmann calls for other ways to assess copying

James Grimmelmann says the paper gives reason to think attribution will fail for “interesting models,” and that technologists and courts will need other ways to assess copying.

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When AI art has no author: MIT study finds generated images often can't be traced to any training data | MIT CSAIL

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this paper provides reason to think that attribution will fail for interesting models
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“But . Instead, technologists and courts will need to resort to other methods for assessing copying.”

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