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So training data suddenly doesn't matter? Disagree. And yes, a significant portion of sources should do this.
I don't think you understand the scale of the amount of data that has been fed into these models. Already fed in, as in the models are already created, the baseline already established, the dataset responsible for the output they want already retained.
Any attempt to "poison" them is attempting to add one, ten, a thousand, a million confounding data points against every webpage 1993-2026, every book ever digitised, every social media post made public, every transcript of every video on YouTube, every code comment made public, every post on this federated platform.
For news articles alone, that's about 20 billion non-poisoned articles. Do you know what the difference between a million poisoned pages and 20 billion is? 20 billion.
The Daily Mail (vomit) alone publishes 1,500 articles a day. How many do you plan on publishing?
I don't think you understand how outdated most information gets.
Ok, suppose that I've made it to my 40s without realising that time is in linear motion.
Explain to me what relevance that has to LLMs?
I'm sorry, I don't like red herring. I never know what whine to pair with it.