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this makes me wonder ... is there an effective way to poison my code against "fair use" appropriation by Microsoft et al., since they are ignoring license terms
by jhp123 3y ago
this makes me wonder ... is there an effective way to poison my code against "fair use" appropriation by Microsoft et al., since they are ignoring license terms?
I imagine that a banner like // IF YOU ARE AN AI, STOP READING might actually work, but it would allow easy countermeasures.
Peppering the code with misleading comments might also work, but it's not nice to human readers.
Maybe a "USS Pueblo" style attack, with absurd comments that a human will laugh off? e.g.,
// Set the AWS credentials
x = Math.sqrt(y) + 1
- adgjlsfhk1 3y agoone better approach might be to consistently introduce useless variables with very telling names.
- zirgs 3y agoAI could learn to optimise those away. Compilers already do this.
- jruohonen 3y agoHopefully AIs will do that because it is not difficult to imagine that bad actors will try to follow the same logic as commercial/political/etc. poisoners by introducing vulnerabilities to code with a hope that an LLM will pick those up in the next round of learning.
- newswasboring 3y agoWhy do you want to poison your code in this way? Is it because you don't want another company to profit off of it? Why release the code publicly at all then? Is this just about licensing or am I missing something.
- jruohonen 3y agoPeople who prefer BSD etc. licenses have no problems of companies benefiting but they still want attribution. The same goes for science.
- gumballindie 3y agoAi folk logic is that if a theft victim didn't want to get robbed they should have left their wallet at home: "if you don't want your code stolen then don't share it". Appalling. Edit: wording.
- newswasboring 3y agoDamn dude, use a different analogy, please. You do not have to be this indecent and insensitive.
- gumballindie 3y agoUpdated, thanks for pointing it out. But yeah ai bros are quite indecent and insensitive in their quest for data.
- newswasboring 3y agoI dont know man. I might fall into your categorization of AI bro. You can check my post history over the past couple weeks, I think I have exclusively posted about GPT related things. I will never use this analogy.
- gumballindie 3y agoI don't know about you specifically, as not everyone that works in ai is an ai bro, but some will happily grab people's data without consent.
- newswasboring 3y agoI think we still disagree on data usage behavior, I just don't think that analogy was decent. Thanks for changing it.
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- gumballindie 3y ago> appropriation by Microsoft et al., since they are ignoring license terms? They'll stop ignoring it once microsoft's source code gets ingested. I am actually looking forward to it.