The Fallacy of Compression

This post is a very lightly edited extract from my forthcoming article in the Duke Law Journal, Copyright s Jagged Frontier (https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=6319379) What does AI memorization prove? Some argue that any evidence of memorization necessarily negates the claim that AI models are transformative. They advance this claim by injecting the term “compression” into the…