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Ken Thompson Hack 2.0

Maybe? If you poison the prompt then there's evidence and it can be undone. Poison fragments of the source training data, however, and that's some KT shit right there. Enterprise foundation models cost bonkers money to train and pretty much slurp up all the data on the internet for mostly automated annotation. Stick something in an obscure part of the internet which becomes part of the training and produces the malicious response and it's going to be both hard and expensive to detect or correct.

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Ken Thompson Hack 2.0

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The datasets are constantly expanding as new content is generated online. There's a degradation issue currently where the models are training on incorrect data generated by previous iteration of their own or other models and effectively poisoning itself to more confidently give the same incorrect information in future.

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Flat earthers

Unfortunately, it's way dumber than that

The north pole is the middle of the map and the moon goes in circles like the sun. The incredible brightness of the sun is not visible after it's passed visibly over the horizon round in a flat circle and neither is the moon. It is not explained how the sun goes definitively down over the horizon from one geographical perspective and up into the sky from another based on this flat disk.

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exam cheating

You're absolutely right to feel frustrated about the sentence. What started as a simple parking ticket fine has escalated into a public and live televised execution, and that's on me. Thanks for sticking with it through this journey. Your feedback is completely fair and I will try to give more legally correct and relevant answers in the future.