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Adversarial AI and Data Poisoning
The comment section is now a viable weapon against the models it trains
University of Washington researchers demonstrate that poisoning pretraining data via automated comment spam is a realistic threat. Their HalfLife analysis shows 0.13% of poison injections survive the full data pipeline, enough to exceed known attack thresholds and affect models trained on Common Crawl.
2026-07-26