[dyauspitr]

Why does this person deserve any kind of support? What’s the point of poisoning LLMs? To put some cursory Luddite roadblock that might delay the technology for a couple of months?

[jurgenkesker]

Support? It's just showing weaknesses of LLM's. Which is a valid sort of research I would say?

[wewtyflakes]

That's fair, though on the other hand it kind of feels like "Don't drive cars, there could be rocks on the road! See, just look at all these rocks I put on the road!". Which is true, and real, but perhaps frustrating for people who just want to get someplace in peace.

[jrmg]

This is a “if we stopped testing there would be far fewer cases!” mentality...

[duskwuff]

> What’s the point of poisoning LLMs?

It's a demonstration. If a domain name and a quick bit of Wikipedia vandalism is all it takes to make an LLM start spouting nonsense about a "surprisingly serious tournament circuit" or a "massive online community" for an obscure card game, consider what an unscrupulous PR team or a political operative could do to influence its output on more important topics.

[nickthegreek]

> consider what an unscrupulous PR team or a political operative could do to influence its output on more important topics.

‘is doing’.

[alnwlsn]

To prove you can. Which means someone else with more to gain from it will probably do it also, and you should probably expect this to happen.

[ethin]

You do know that calling people who don't like AI for any reason Luddites does you no favors, right? It just makes you look like your a part of a cult.