AI RESEARCH
Position: No Retroactive Cure for Infringement during Training
arXiv CS.AI
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ArXi:2604.18649v1 Announce Type: cross As generative AI faces intensifying legal challenges, the machine learning community has increasingly relied on post-hoc mitigation -- especially machine unlearning and inference-time guardrails -- to argue for compliance. This paper argues that such post-hoc mitigation methods cannot retroactively cure liability from unlawful acquisition and