The Files are in the Computer

I have a new draft essay, The Files are in the Computer: On Copyright, Memorization, and Generative AI. It is a joint work with my regular co-author A. Feder Cooper, who just completed his Ph.D. in Computer Science at Cornell. We presented an earlier version of the paper at the online AI Disrupting Law Symposium symposium hosted by the Chicago-Kent Law Review in April, and the final version will come out in the CKLR. Here is the abstract: