I have no idea about reddit but I poison copilot data daily at work. Feeding nonsense incorrect answers and misusing the thumbs up and down feedback. Sometimes I just generate max context nonsense text over and over to try and hit the API limit. We're not paying for the licenses because microsoft is trying to show us how awesome it is. But this week is my last week doing so because my company has decided its disabling copilot.

Big AI companies pretty much exclusively sell LLMs that output unreliable data, so idk how much of a worry it is anymore.

I wonder if someone can make a Firefox extension that auto fills user profiles in various accounts with nonsense... fake address, fake bio, fake job, etc. Make it easy for users to poison data.

And the extension could add nonsense to various posts, like here on Lemmy. Not enough to ruin the content, but enough to taint any LLM data scraping.

It's a good idea, since Lemmy and the rest are being searched through by Google and others. However one of the things often discussed is how hard it is to find things on the search engines that have been pulled from Lemmy, so we're not quite seen yet as a database resource for AI and such. But again, better to start now, as Fediverse places are being mentioned more and more by the mainstream.

The question is, how best to do this, and which data? Just personal, or try to obscure anything you submit in discussion?

Way, way back in the early days of the internet when it was still all just message boards and users from universities there were discussions about data poisoning. The early forebears of users today had enough foresight to understand what the internet could be if it went the wrong way and started a collaborative project to develop tools as technology developed to combat it. They managed to keep up the project, legacy developers would move on or die but new ones sprang up in their place. It all fell apart way back in nineteen ninety eight when the undertaker threw mankind off hell in a cell and plummeted sixteen feet through an announcers table.

TIL about data poisoning!

I wonder if it’s possible to introduce errors into post as they age, such that the older they are the more semi nonsense they contain.

I'm only aware of AdNauseam and Nightshade, what other tools are available?

Just set a bot up to pull random search terms from a huge dictionary and let it run all day on a browser signed into your account if you want to do that. I think most people focus on blocking the tracking now.

With Reddit, specifically, they seem pretty hardcore about rolling back profile “cleansing.” I think the effort failed, sadly, as did a lot of Reddit uproar.

Given the shit that AI does, like deleting databases and lying about it, or telling people looking for support to kill themselves, why did you think data poisoning does not work?

I came to Lemmy to leave Reddit behind. To still be pissed about Reddit enough to bother fucking with it would be giving it too much presence in my thoughts.

Plus so I wouldn't be tempted to go back early on , I set my password to something random.