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

I think this will be a watershed moment in tech similar to Elon's layoffs at Twitter in 2022. AI coding agents crossed the threshold in December and this is the beginning of the fallout.

"we're not making this decision because we're in trouble. our business is strong. gross profit continues to grow, we continue to serve more and more customers" - Jack Dorsey

This is a great summary of the sea change that’s occurred in programming due to AI agents. They were basically hype until December of last year and now they’re reality.

That you can give Claude instructions in English to build an app, configure various settings and take several actions which it not only executes perfectly but then figures out how to address errors on its own is magical.

It’s easy to dismiss this if you haven’t used the latest models but writing code is effectively free.

Summer Yue, a director at Meta Superintelligence Labs working on AI safety and alignment, shared how OpenClaw ignored requests to confirm before acting and deleted emails from their inbox.

This is the same technology the Pentagon can’t wait to use to build weapons.

https://x.com/summeryue0/status/2025774069124399363