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A Project to Poison LLM Crawlers (rnsaffn.com)
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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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[-] Disillusionist@piefed.world 12 points 2 months ago

Is the only imaginable system for AI to exist one in which every website operator, or musician, artist, writer, etc has no say in how their data is used? Is it possible to have a more consensual arrangement?

As far as the question about ethics, there is a lot of ground to cover on that. A lot of it is being discussed. I'll basically reiterate what I said that pertains to data rights. I believe they are pretty fundamental to human rights, for a lot of reasons. AI is killing open source, and claiming the whole of human experience for its own training purposes. I find that unethical.

[-] Lembot_0006@programming.dev 2 points 2 months ago

Killing open source? How?!

[-] Disillusionist@piefed.world 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)
[-] Lembot_0006@programming.dev 2 points 2 months ago

The guy is talking about consulting as I understand. Yes, LLM is great for reading the documentation. That's the purpose of LLM. Now people can use those libraries without spending ages reading through docs. That's progress. I see it as a way to write more open source because it became simpler and less tedious.

[-] Disillusionist@piefed.world 9 points 2 months ago

He's jumping ship because it's destroying his ability to eke out a living. The problem isn't a small one, what's happening to him isn't a limited case.

[-] Lembot_0006@programming.dev 2 points 2 months ago

So? Is he more important than those specialists who now can write code without hiring a consultant?

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