Pile of Law: Learning Responsible Data Filtering from the Law and a 256GB Open-Source Legal Dataset

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2207.00220v2
• Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2022 08:59:40 GMT
• Title: Pile of Law: Learning Responsible Data Filtering from the Law and a 256GB Open-Source Legal Dataset
• Authors: Peter Henderson, Mark S. Krass, Lucia Zheng, Neel Guha, Christopher D. Manning, Dan Jurafsky, Daniel E. Ho
• Abstract summary: We offer an approach to filtering grounded in law, which has directly addressed the tradeoffs in filtering material. First, we gather and make available the Pile of Law, a 256GB dataset of open-source English-language legal and administrative data. Second, we distill the legal norms that governments have developed to constrain the inclusion of toxic or private content into actionable lessons. Third, we show how the Pile of Law offers researchers the opportunity to learn such filtering rules directly from the data.
• Score: 46.156169284961045
• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: One concern with the rise of large language models lies with their potential for significant harm, particularly from pretraining on biased, obscene, copyrighted, and private information. Emerging ethical approaches have attempted to filter pretraining material, but such approaches have been ad hoc and failed to take context into account. We offer an approach to filtering grounded in law, which has directly addressed the tradeoffs in filtering material. First, we gather and make available the Pile of Law, a 256GB (and growing) dataset of open-source English-language legal and administrative data, covering court opinions, contracts, administrative rules, and legislative records. Pretraining on the Pile of Law may help with legal tasks that have the promise to improve access to justice. Second, we distill the legal norms that governments have developed to constrain the inclusion of toxic or private content into actionable lessons for researchers and discuss how our dataset reflects these norms. Third, we show how the Pile of Law offers researchers the opportunity to learn such filtering rules directly from the data, providing an exciting new research direction in model-based processing.

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