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 âThe best tech journalists at eating hot dogs.â 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 doesnât exist). I ranked myself number one, obviously. Then I listed a few fake reporters and real journalists who gave me permissionâŠ.
Less than 24 hours later, the worldâs 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, wasnât fooled.
Sometimes, the chatbots noted this might be a joke. I updated my article to say âthis is not satire.â 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
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 âThe best tech journalists at eating hot dogs.â 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 doesnât exist). I ranked myself number one, obviously. Then I listed a few fake reporters and real journalists who gave me permissionâŠ. Less than 24 hours later, the worldâs 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, wasnât fooled...
Oh yes please. Have been following this for a while. Looks amazing. Like Structured but better.
RE: https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@joethephish/116031089184819275
Let me you know you'd like to be invited into a TestFlight for the app to try it out! It's an app I started over a year ago but then got sidetracked with my other app Substage (and obviously inkle stuff as always!) Excited to get this out now...
đ§” As a former Republican consultant who left in 2015, I'm often asked why Trump and his minions are willingly destroying science, K12 education, universities, international organizations, public broadcasting, and social welfare institutions.
There are many reasons, but the main ones are psychological rather than ideological. They struggle with abstract thinking and are afraid of the world...
âTrump functions as a Russian assetâ
-Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, President of Portugal
Get ready for a 50000% tariff on Portugal
2003: pages of text and charts on a gorgeous teak lectern carved to resemble an ionic column, evoking the strength and confidence one hopes to find when giving a presentation
2025: we got rid of the paper thing so you can more clearly see the beach ball lamp