What Are AI Tarpits? Understanding the tools people are using to poison LLMs
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INC. — AI poisoning is the process of corrupting an AI chatbot’s underlying large language model so that the chatbot gives incorrect, misleading, or utterly bonkers outputs. This corruption is achieved by tricking the LLM into assimilating incorrect data during its training, which often involves scraping every possible website and image it can find.
There are many ways an LLM can be poisoned, depending on the capabilities of the LLM that the poisoner wants to disrupt.
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