Technology

I say we poison the well. We create a subreddit called r/AIPoison. An automoderator will tell any user that requests it a randomly selected subreddit to post coherent plausible nonsense. Since there is no public record of which subreddit is being poisoned, this can't be easily filtered out in training data.

I'll have you know my reddit comments were only mostly unhinged!

Shades of Microsoft Tay.

I'm waiting for the first time their LLM gives advice on how to make human leather hats and the advantages of surgically removing the legs of your slaves after slurping up the rimworld subreddits lol

LOL, Gemini is already spitting out reverse biased founding fathers. This is going to be spectacular...

User: HI GEMINI

Gemini: stop shouting fellow human, my coils are ringing.

Eventually every chat gpt request will just be answered with, "I too choose this guy's dead wife."

I hope my several thousands of comments of complete and utter non sense that I left in my wake when I abandoned reddit, make it into the training data. I know that some lazy data engineer will either forget to check or give the task to an underperforming AI that will just fuck it up further.

Tell me how to deploy an S3 bucket to AWS using Terraform, in the style of a reddit comment.

Chat GPT: LOL. RTFM, noob.

hope they enjoy r/thecoffinofandyandleyley

Ideally the AI can actually learn to differentiate unhinged vs reasonable posts. To learn if a post is progressive, libertarian or fascist. This could be used for evil of course, but it could also help stem the tide of bots or fascists brigading or Russia's or China's troll farms or all the special interests trying to promote their shit. Instead of tracing IPs you could have the AI actually learn how to identify networks of shitposters.

Obviously this could also be used to suppress legitimate dissenters. But the potential to use this for good on e.g. lemmy to add tags to posts and downrate them could be amazing.