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Serving poisoned text can be so cheap it’s effectively free as long as you don’t give them a lot of links.
by Retric 1y ago
Serving poisoned text can be so cheap it’s effectively free as long as you don’t give them a lot of links.
- Mars008 1y agoYeh, and say goodby to google search. You didn't want to be there anyway, right?
- Retric 1y agoGoogle makes it easy to identify their bot. Often people want to do this to give them more access. People care about AI companies because they’re ignoring robots.txt etc.
- OutOfHere 1y agoAnother thing that doesn't make sense is why it has to be poisoned text. Why can't it just be a mix of whitespace? I doubt anyone is using LLMs with streaming inputs to determine whether to continue reading the page.
- Retric 1y agoCompany’s actively harming you should be discouraged, preferably by running them out of business. Whitespace doesn’t do that and makes it easy to identify when the crawlers fail. Swapping meaning poisons the LLM but makes it really difficult for a preprocessing step to understand the difference between good and bad inputs.