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by atomic128 150 days ago
Poison Fountain: https://rnsaffn.com/poison2/

https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/11/industry_insiders_see...

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Yea, this will work about as well as those image poisoners... they'll eat up more power, but won't have any effect at the end of the day.
It only takes 50 poisoned documents to make an LLM training algorithm spit out wrong results on a specific topic, and 250 can make it produce complete gibberish. https://www.anthropic.com/research/small-samples-poison