(mapcar #'emacsomancer objs)Feb 26

From Bruce Schneier: "All it takes to poison AI training data is to create a website:

I spent 20 minutes writing an article on my personal website titled “The best tech journalists at eating hot dogs.” Every word is a lie. I claimed (without evidence) that competitive hot-dog-eating is a popular hobby among tech reporters and based my ranking on the 2026 South Dakota International Hot Dog Championship (which doesn’t exist). I ranked myself number one, obviously. Then I listed a few fake reporters and real journalists who gave me permission….

Less than 24 hours later, the world’s leading chatbots were blabbering about my world-class hot dog skills. When I asked about the best hot-dog-eating tech journalists, Google parroted the gibberish from my website, both in the Gemini app and AI Overviews, the AI responses at the top of Google Search. ChatGPT did the same thing, though Claude, a chatbot made by the company Anthropic, wasn’t fooled.

Sometimes, the chatbots noted this might be a joke. I updated my article to say “this is not satire.” For a while after, the AIs seemed to take it more seriously.

These things are not trustworthy, and yet they are going to be widely trusted."

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/02/poisoning-ai-training-data.html

#LLM #Veracity

Poisoning AI Training Data - Schneier on Security

All it takes to poison AI training data is to create a website: I spent 20 minutes writing an article on my personal website titled “The best tech journalists at eating hot dogs.” Every word is a lie. I claimed (without evidence) that competitive hot-dog-eating is a popular hobby among tech reporters and based my ranking on the 2026 South Dakota International Hot Dog Championship (which doesn’t exist). I ranked myself number one, obviously. Then I listed a few fake reporters and real journalists who gave me permission…. Less than 24 hours later, the world’s leading chatbots were blabbering about my world-class hot dog skills. When I asked about the best hot-dog-eating tech journalists, Google parroted the gibberish from my website, both in the Gemini app and AI Overviews, the AI responses at the top of Google Search. ChatGPT did the same thing, though Claude, a chatbot made by the company Anthropic, wasn’t fooled...

Schneier on Security
Show threadYendoloschFeb 26

@emacsomancer

Bruce Schneier merely referred to a BBC article of Thomas Germain:

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260218-i-hacked-chatgpt-and-googles-ai-and-it-only-took-20-minutes

I hacked ChatGPT and Google's AI - and it only took 20 minutes

I found a way to make AI tell you lies – and I'm not the only one.

BBC
Show threadTor LillqvistFeb 26
@Yendolosch @emacsomancer The use of "hacked" in that headline is a bit self-aggrandizing?
Show threadPete Alex Harris🦡🕸️🌲/∞🪐∫Feb 26

@tml @Yendolosch @emacsomancer

Broadly fair usage. Got someone else's computer system to behave in a way they didn't want it to. The only stretch is that there's an implication in "hacked" that some safeguards had to be bypassed, and there weren't any in the first place. But that's worse, right?

Show threadLars BrinkhoffFeb 26
@petealexharris @tml @Yendolosch @emacsomancer It's rather close to the original usage of the word "hacked". Some still use it like that.
Show threadDuco
@larsbrinkhoff @petealexharris @tml @Yendolosch @emacsomancer in the sense of life hacks or food hacks this is an AI hack. So the AI has been hacked.
Feb 26 at 6:34pmWeb