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A Project to Poison LLM Crawlers (rnsaffn.com)
submitted 1 day ago by Disillusionist@piefed.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Website operators are being asked to feed LLM crawlers poisoned data by a project called Poison Fountain.

The project page links to URLs which provide a practically endless stream of poisoned training data. They have determined that this approach is very effective at ultimately sabotaging the quality and accuracy of AI which has been trained on it.

Small quantities of poisoned training data can significantly damage a language model.

The page also gives suggestions on how to put the provided resources to use.

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[โ€“] Disillusionist@piefed.world 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

From what I've heard, the influx of AI data is one of the reasons actual human data is becoming increasingly sought after. AI training AI has the potential to become a sort of digital inbreeding that suffers in areas like originality and other ineffable human qualities that AI still hasn't quite mastered.

I've also heard that this particular approach to poisoning AI is newer and thought to be quite effective, though I can't personally speak to its efficacy.

[โ€“] BagOfHeavyStones@piefed.social 5 points 1 day ago

Faults in replication? That can become cancer for humans. AI as well I guess.