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Katherine Lee

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Researcher at OpenAI

Lee studies what generative models memorize and whether private or copyrighted training data can be extracted from them. Her empirical work has helped ground debates over how language models can respect privacy, copyright and people’s control of their data.

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Current role
Researcher
Previously
2023-2025Researcher,
2017-2023Researcher,
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Last editorial review: August 9, 2026