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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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[–] FauxLiving@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

It’s really unproductive to make blanket statements that try to end discussion before it starts.

I don't know, it seems like their comment accurately predicted the response.

Even if you want to see yourself as some beacon of open and honest discussion, you have to admit that there are a lot of people who are toxic to anybody who mentions any position that isn't rabidly anti-AI enough for them.

[–] Disillusionist@piefed.world 2 points 17 hours ago

This is a subject that people (understandably) have strong opinions on. Debates get heated sometimes and yes, some individuals go on the attack. I never post anything with the expectation that no one is going to have bad feelings about it and everyone is just going to hold hands and sing a song.

There are hard conversations that need to be had regardless. All sides of an argument need to be open enough to have it and not just retreat to their own cushy little safe zones. This is the Fediverse, FFS.