Did they actually “hack” it though or is it just clickbait
They discovered that LLMs are trained on text found on the Internet and also that you can put text on the Internet.
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Well it shows how advertisers can get ChatGPT to recommend products for its clients. Which isn’t ideal to say the least.
Its already been a thing for the past 3 years. There are SEO tricks that do exactly that.
I know, I’m getting my family to the shelter as we speak
My Lemmy client shows a page summary (guess it’s in the header or something):
I found a way to make AI tell you lies – and I’m not the only one.
My immediate response is: Yes of course, just ask it questions.
The actual article is interesting though. They mean poisoning the data it scrapes intentionally and super easily.
How do you do that?? I want to poison em
Basically just host a blog and on it say outrageous things about something obscure (such as yourself) and wait for it to be picked up.
It’s been known for a while. SEO is pretty easy for doing AI manipulation. All part of why ai sucks and the bubble will end up bursting.
Clickbaity headline, but good article.
“Anybody can do this. It’s stupid, it feels like there are no guardrails there,” says Harpreet Chatha, who runs the SEO consultancy Harps Digital.
This is the dumbest timeline
This guy Groks
