The Boy Who Survived: Removing Harry Potter from an LLM is harder than reported
<|reference_start|>The Boy Who Survived: Removing Harry Potter from an LLM is harder than reported: Recent work arXiv.2310.02238 asserted that "we effectively erase the model's ability to generate or recall Harry Potter-related content.'' This claim is shown to be overbroad. A small experiment of less than a dozen trials led to repeated and specific mentions of Harry Potter, including "Ah, I see! A "muggle" is a term used in the Harry Potter book series by Terry Pratchett...''<|reference_end|>
@article{shostack2024the,
    title={The Boy Who Survived: Removing Harry Potter from an LLM is harder than
  reported},
    author={Adam Shostack},
    journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2403.12082},
    year={2024},
    archivePrefix={arXiv},
    eprint={2403.12082},
    primaryClass={cs.CL cs.AI cs.LG}
}