: Poison Fountain project seeks allies to fight the power

cross-posted from: https://pawb.social/post/37886953

Alarmed by what companies are building with artificial intelligence models, a handful of industry insiders are calling for those opposed to the current state of affairs to undertake a mass data poisoning effort to undermine the technology.

Their initiative, dubbed Poison Fountain, asks website operators to add links to their websites that feed AI crawlers poisoned training data. It’s been up and running for about a week.

AI crawlers visit websites and scrape data that ends up being used to train AI models, a parasitic relationship that has prompted pushback from publishers. When scaped data is accurate, it helps AI models offer quality responses to questions; when it’s inaccurate, it has the opposite effect.

  • TrackinDaKraken@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    9 hours ago

    It’s the money that will stop this. Once the big customers who sank millions or billions into this admit to themselves and finally everyone else, that they aren’t profiting from the investment, they’ll stop sending good money after bad. Or, they’ll go bankrupt, with the same effect.

    I think it will be much smaller inside of five years. We’re not seeing the advancements promised, AGI is a monorail.