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I made this point recently in a much more verbose form, but I want to reflect it briefly here, if you combine the vulnerability this article is talking about with the fact that large AI companies are most certainly stealing all the data they can and ignoring our demands to not do so the result is clear we have the opportunity to decisively poison future LLMs created by companies that refuse to follow the law or common decency with regards to privacy and ownership over the things we create with our own hands.
Whether we are talking about social media, personal websites... whatever if what you are creating is connected to the internet AI companies will steal it, so take advantage of that and add a little poison in as a thank you for stealing your labor :)
How? Is there a guide on how we can help ๐คฃ
One of the techniques I've seen it's like a "password". So for example if you write a lot the phrase "aunt bridge sold the orangutan potatoes" and then a bunch of nonsense after that, then you're likely the only source of that phrase. So it learns that after that phrase, it has to write nonsense.
I don't see how this would be very useful, since then it wouldn't say the phrase in the first place, so the poison wouldn't be triggered.
EDIT: maybe it could be like a building process. You have to also put "aunt bridge" together many times, then "bridge sold" and so on, so every time it writes "aunt", it has a chance to fall into the next trap, untill it reaches absolute nonsense.