Well by that token, grooming might as well refer to combing your hair. That's clearly daft, though. In fact, its current usage probably first emerged in the 19

Well by that token, grooming might as well refer to combing your hair. That's clearly daft, though. In fact, its current usage probably first emerged in the 1970s in relation to child abuse [0]. Since then it's been hijacked by various right-leaning individuals and groups as a dog-whistle for whatever they happen to be most worried about today [1]. That makes it a heavily over-loaded word that's becoming a general fnord. The problem with fnords is that they discourage thinking. So I'm not in favour of using 'grooming' to refer to data/model poisoning. [0] https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0886260517742046 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/088626051774204... [1] https://www.edweek.org/leadership/why-misusing-groomer-as-a-political-smear-is-especially-dangerous/2022/04 https://www.edweek.org/leadership/why-misusing-groomer-as-a-...