Jason Koebler14h ago

New: Researchers have quantified how easy AI search is to manipulate. Just 13 words buried in a random Reddit comment can poison AI search results. They suggest this is not easy to stop: "The way you can attack these systems is so much dumber than you think it is"

https://www.404media.co/it-is-trivially-easy-to-use-reddit-to-manipulate-ai-search-research-suggests/

It Is Trivially Easy to Use Reddit to Manipulate AI Search, Research Suggests

"We show that a tiny snippet—just 13 words—of retrieved text on a UGC website like Reddit, Wikipedia, Quora, or Facebook can change AI agents to output spam / scam content pretty consistently."

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@jasonkoebler @MeowPurr This is amazeballs. Also, I have a sub, but thanks for making this link available outside the login wall. It makes it easier to share. And the knowledge that it’s this easy to poison, is knowledge that should be shared widely and often. 🥳
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