Papers by Michael-Andrei Panaitescu-Liess
PoisonedParrot: Subtle Data Poisoning Attacks to Elicit Copyright-Infringing Content from Large Language Models (2025.naacl-long)
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Michael-Andrei Panaitescu-Liess, Pankayaraj Pathmanathan, Yigitcan Kaya, Zora Che, Bang An, Sicheng Zhu, Aakriti Agrawal, Furong Huang
| Challenge: | PoisonedParrot is the first stealthy data poisoning attack that induces an LLM to generate copyrighted content even when the model has not been directly trained on the copyright material. |
| Approach: | They propose a stealthy data poisoning attack that induces an LLM to generate copyrighted content even when it has not been directly trained on the copyright material. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model induces an LLM to generate copyrighted content with no discernible side effects and is surprisingly effective at priming the model to generate content with little side effects. |