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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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[–] KeenFlame@feddit.nu 2 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Ai devalues datasets when it refines, many resources are aimed towards solving the degradation that occurs when ai trains on ai. Gradients become poor and quality follows

[–] FaceDeer@fedia.io 1 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

You're thinking of "model decay", I take it? That's not really a thing in practice.

[–] KeenFlame@feddit.nu 2 points 2 hours ago

It is not only a theory, really the models suck balls at their accuracy when it has only rephrased something that was errenous in nature, its very understandable to me