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The Copyright Exposure in AI-Generated Content: A Risk Framework for Engineering Teams

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Tian Pan
Software Engineer

GPT-4 reproduced exact passages from books in 43% of test prompts when asked to continue a given excerpt. In one 2025 study, researchers extracted nearly an entire book near-verbatim from a production LLM — no jailbreaking required, just a persistent prefix-feeding loop. If your product generates content using a language model, the copyright exposure is not a future risk. It is happening in your users' sessions today, and you probably have no instrumentation to catch it.

This is not primarily a legal article. It's an engineering article about a legal problem that engineering decisions either create or contain. Lawyers will tell you what constitutes infringement. This framework tells you where your system leaks, how to measure it, and what actually reduces risk versus what only looks like it does.