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This assumes that the companies gathering the data don’t have silent ways of detecting bad actors and discarding their responses. If you’re trying to poison an AI, are you making all of your queries from the same IP? Via a VPN whose IP block is known? Are you using a tool to generate this bad data, which might have detectable word frequency patterns that can be detected with something cheap like tf-idf? There’s a lot…
> If you’re trying to poison an AI, are you making all of your queries from the same IP? Via a VPN whose IP block is known? We can use the same tactics they are using to crawl the web and scrape pages and bypass anti-scraping mechanisms.
And at the end of the daty, they can always look at the responses coming in and make decisions like “95% of users said these responses were wrong, 5% said these responses were right, let’s go with the 95%”. As long as the vast majority of their data is good (and it will be) they have a lot of statistical tools they can use to weed out the poison.