this post was submitted on 11 Jan 2026
75 points (100.0% liked)

Fuck AI

6301 readers
1304 users here now

"We did it, Patrick! We made a technological breakthrough!"

A place for all those who loathe AI to discuss things, post articles, and ridicule the AI hype. Proud supporter of working people. And proud booer of SXSW 2024.

AI, in this case, refers to LLMs, GPT technology, and anything listed as "AI" meant to increase market valuations.

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
 

cross-posted from: https://pawb.social/post/37886953

Alarmed by what companies are building with artificial intelligence models, a handful of industry insiders are calling for those opposed to the current state of affairs to undertake a mass data poisoning effort to undermine the technology.

Their initiative, dubbed Poison Fountain, asks website operators to add links to their websites that feed AI crawlers poisoned training data. It's been up and running for about a week.

AI crawlers visit websites and scrape data that ends up being used to train AI models, a parasitic relationship that has prompted pushback from publishers. When scaped data is accurate, it helps AI models offer quality responses to questions; when it's inaccurate, it has the opposite effect.

top 1 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 15 points 2 months ago

It's the money that will stop this. Once the big customers who sank millions or billions into this admit to themselves and finally everyone else, that they aren't profiting from the investment, they'll stop sending good money after bad. Or, they'll go bankrupt, with the same effect.

I think it will be much smaller inside of five years. We're not seeing the advancements promised, AGI is a monorail.