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[โ€“] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

So it's like nightshade for LLMs?

[โ€“] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago

Better, actually. This feeds the crawler a potentially infinite amount of nonsense data. If not caught, this will fill up the whatever storage medium is used. Since the data is generated using Markov-chains, any LLM trained on it will learn to disregard context that goes farther back than one word, which would be disastrous for the quality of any output the LLM produces.

Technically, it would be possible for a single page using iocaine to completely ruin an LLM. With nightshade you'd have to poison quite a number of images. On the other hand, Iocaine text can be easily detected by a human, while nightshade is designed to not be noticeable by humans.