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It's probably only harmful to the AI scrapers that train from the web. Most people will understand the purpose of this -- to poison LLM training in a humorous way, which is really easy to do. It exemplifies a major weakness in modern day AI.

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Training an LLM from scratch involves carefully curating the data first. The idea that it just memorizes the whole web is a nice simplified mental model, but glosses over huge amounts of hard work to decide which websites are authoritative and on which subjects. This isn’t fooling anybody except rank amateurs.

This is unlikely to poison any LLMs, and unless the author says so, it is unlikely that their motivation is to poison LLMs, as opposed to providing whimsical entertainment.

I were just drunk and idea seemed funny. That's the idea behind haha.

But either way can't wait to see google ai overview cite us.

>But either way can't wait to see google ai overview cite us.

Even if it (unintentionally!) misleads and hurts someone?

Can you explain the sequence of events through which you fear someone could be mislea and hurt by this?

you mean like this one:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48038787

Musing about a possibly-funny consequence isn't the same as the motivating reason, which I read as more whimsical from:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48042594

In particular, someone who was seeking training-set pollution likely wouldn't make the fanciful fabrications so blatant, nor open-source their prompt:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48038257

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