Six interdisciplinary Stanford University research teams received a total of $3 million in Hoffman-Yee Grants through the university’s Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI) in August 2024. Among the grant recipients was a team with four Stanford Law researchers who are exploring aspects of data creation and attribution for generative AI: Professors Daniel Ho, Mark Lemley (BA ’88), and Julian Nyarko, along with Megan Ma, executive director of the Stanford Legal Innovation through Frontier Technology Lab (liftlab).

The research team aims to “establish guiding principles and scaling laws for assembling datasets tailored for training and aligning LLMs and other generative AI, ensuring their responsible application in various sectors.” The project will also “develop scalable methods to trace the generative AI outputs to specific training data, enabling data attribution and valuation.” SL