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[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 9 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

Hey, mine is empty. Can anyone recommend something I could put in there to poison it?

A couple hundred million 0kb files?

[–] SendMePhotos@lemmy.world 7 points 19 hours ago

A ton of folders

[–] AliasAKA@lemmy.world 5 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

That won’t poison an LLM exactly.

https://www.anthropic.com/research/small-samples-poison#%3A%7E%3Atext=For+example%2C+LLMs+can+be%2Cwidespread+adoption+in+sensitive+applications.

Theoretically this is a place to start. They probably have mitigations for many of these.

[–] halcyoncmdr@piefed.social 4 points 13 hours ago

They probably have mitigations for many of these.

Have you seen the state of testing for Microsoft products nowadays? Or rather the apparently complete lack of testing.

[–] sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz 2 points 17 hours ago

I found this study, it looked promising but I think it only works on the one LLM they were targeting. Also they seem to be working to protect ai models so results they find will probably be implemented as ways to protect against poisoning. I guess intentional dataset poisoning hasn't come as far as I hoped