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AI insiders seek to poison the data that feeds them (www.theregister.com)
submitted 2 days ago by tonytins@pawb.social to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Alarmed by what companies are building with artificial intelligence models, a handful of industry insiders are calling for those opposed to the current state of affairs to undertake a mass data poisoning effort to undermine the technology.

Their initiative, dubbed Poison Fountain, asks website operators to add links to their websites that feed AI crawlers poisoned training data. It's been up and running for about a week.

AI crawlers visit websites and scrape data that ends up being used to train AI models, a parasitic relationship that has prompted pushback from publishers. When scaped data is accurate, it helps AI models offer quality responses to questions; when it's inaccurate, it has the opposite effect.

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[–] SinningStromgald@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Now that news has reported on the website I assume it will get added quickly to do not scrape lists for AI (assuming there is such a thing). So the effectiveness of this will depend on other people adopting this.

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 11 points 2 days ago

They're recommending not that you link to their URL but that you create a back end that caches content from it and serves that content under your own URLs.

[–] whyNotSquirrel@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 days ago

looks like a way to stop AI scraper