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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[–] 55 points 8 months ago (14 children)

Corpos: Don't steal our stuff! That's piracy!

Also corpos: Your stuff? My stuff now.

Bootlickers: Oh my god this shoe polish is delicious.

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  • [–] -5 points 8 months ago (4 children)

    Person: Says a thing

    Person 2, who disagrees with the thing: YOU'RE A BOOTLICKER!

    Super convincing. I'm sure you're going to win people over to your position if you scream loud enough.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago (3 children)

    oh no people who like the plagiarism and child porn machine won't like me. I'm sure it'll tell them to be very upset about this.

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  • [–] 0 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    Who said anything about plagiarism and child porn? I was talking about the people who have no ability to actually state or defend a position and seem to believe that insults and hot takes are some kind of substitution.

    Replying to a person with insults and nothing else is toxic and does nothing except make you look irrational and ignorant. As is inventing strawman positions rather than responding to a person's point.

    This is true no matter who are are or what position that you're taking on any subject.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago* (1 child)

    Apparently I didn't make it clear before so: If you are defending AI slop I do not respect you as a person, nor do I place any value on your opinion. Get blocked.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago*

    As is inventing strawman positions rather than responding to a person’s point.


    Oh lol, this guy is a Moderator. From the rules of your own Reddit:

    • Don’t be an asshole. If you’re reading a comment you’re about to make and think “Hmm… this sounds like the kind of comment an asshole would make” then do not make that comment. Yes, even if the other person “started it”.

    That really sounds hypocritical given your responses.

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  • [+] -16 points 8 months ago (8 children)

    You should select something: whether you like the current copyright system or not. You can't do both.

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  • [–] 22 points 8 months ago (6 children)

    Corporations want the existing copyright system for their own products but simultaneously want to freely scrape data from everyone else.

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  • [–] -5 points 8 months ago (5 children)

    I see that as a copyright problem, not a specific LLM one.

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  • [–] 16 points 8 months ago* (4 children)

    This issue is largely manifesting through AI scraping right now. Additionally, many intentionally ignore robots.txt. Currently, LLM scrapers are basically just bad actors on the internet. Courts have also ruled in favor of a number of AI companies when sued in the US, so it's unlikely anything will change. Effectively, if you don't like the status quo, stuff like this is one of your few options.

    This isn't even mentioning of course whether we actually want these companies to improve their models before resolving the problems of energy consumption and potential displacement of human workers.

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  • [–] -3 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    All crawlers ignore robots text since the very start. Anyway, if THAT is the problem then IT is a problem, not the LLMs as a whole.

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  • [–] 0 points 8 months ago

    You can tell when you're talking with someone who has been given the position of 'AI Bad', but doesn't actually understand the moral positions or technological details that form the foundation of that argument by how confidently they repeat some detail that is clearly nonsense to anybody with knowledge of the subject.

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