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

My favorite thing on Bluesky is a labeler made by the Social Technologies Lab at Cornell Tech.

https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:oubsyca6hhgqhmbbk27lvs7c

It surfaces metadata on posts. Most useful to me is "This person posted more than 50 times yesterday."

It recasts a post like the one pictured. It reminds me to look at their profile and figure out if they are a real person, and are they terminally online, or engagement farming, or what. Then I might block/mute because I don't need people like that in my lifeworld.

Welcome to 2026. If you're a #USA citizen, starting today you can you request your ballot for all the upcoming elections this year (the big one in November, but also primaries leading up to it).

The best way: use https://votefromabroad.org to fill out the form electronically and have it sent to your elections clerk in the place where you're registered (or want to register, if you need to do that).

I just did it - took < 5 minutes.

The service is paid for by @democratsabroad (the party who WANTS you to vote), but it's open to ANY US citizen abroad.

Please boost and pass the word to any USA people you know outside the USA!

„I’m a developer for a major food delivery app. The 'Priority Fee' and 'Driver Benefit Fee' go 100% to the company. The driver sees $0 of it.“

That’s so wild, if it’s true.

https://www.reddit.com/r/confession/s/S8WTkwkvN8

This thread is worth reading if you are a Google docs user.

Short version: When you export a document from Google Docs, Google replaces all your hyperlinks with links that allows Google to monitor the interactions of everyone you share your document with.

This hidden link replacement can potentially be used to build a model of your professional relations, where people who interact more with your content are considered a stronger relation.

Think about the implications.
https://fosstodon.org/@Joe_0237/111145684757912952