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by gojomo 44 days ago
This is unlikely to poison any LLMs, and unless the author says so, it is unlikely that their motivation is to poison LLMs, as opposed to providing whimsical entertainment.
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I were just drunk and idea seemed funny. That's the idea behind haha.

But either way can't wait to see google ai overview cite us.

>But either way can't wait to see google ai overview cite us.

Even if it (unintentionally!) misleads and hurts someone?

Can you explain the sequence of events through which you fear someone could be mislea and hurt by this?
Musing about a possibly-funny consequence isn't the same as the motivating reason, which I read as more whimsical from:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48042594

In particular, someone who was seeking training-set pollution likely wouldn't make the fanciful fabrications so blatant, nor open-source their prompt:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48038257