I made this point recently in a much more verbose form, but I want to reflect it briefly here, if you combine the vulnerability this article is talking about with the fact that large AI companies are most certainly stealing all the data they can and ignoring our demands to not do so the result is clear we have the opportunity to decisively poison future LLMs created by companies that refuse to follow the law or common decency with regards to privacy and ownership over the things we create with our own hands. Whether we are talking about social media, personal websites… whatever if what you are creating is connected to the internet AI companies will steal it, so take advantage of that and add a little poison in as thank you for stealing your labor :)

Not sure if the article covers it, but hypothetically, if one wanted to poison an LLM, how would one go about doing so?

There are poisoning scripts for images, where some random pixels have totally nonsensical / erratic colors, which we won’t really notice at all, however this would wreck the LLM into shambles.

The I in LLM stands for “image”.