Tuhin Chakrabarty calls for attribution tools tracing AI output back to pre-training works

TuhinChakr · x · 2026-10-22

Columbia professor Tuhin Chakrabarty highlighted an essay by author Tope Folarin in The Atlantic, arguing that to save literature and the future of creative work, we need accurate tools to attribute AI-generated content to the human works in the pre-training corpus.

This represents a "technical attribution" voice in the AI-copyright debate: not only legal bans, but a verifiable provenance chain from generated text back to source works.

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