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Gifford describes deleting training inputs and their influence

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2026-08-18

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Gifford describes deleting training inputs and their influence

David Gifford describes the paper’s method as deleting training inputs and all their influence. He says it enables efficient, large-scale deletion and shows that the results do not change.

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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 introduces the first method that is absolute. You're actually deleting the inputs and deleting all influences of the inputs.
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"They really could not absolutely show that deleting individual things did not change the output. This is the first exact method for doing large-scale deletion efficiently and showing that the results don't change."

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