So, I’ve been on Lemmy since the great Reddit exodus a couple years ago, and back on Reddit though, there were discussions on Data Poisoning, where since it was nigh unto impossible to keep your data private, people would poison their data with all sorts of extraneous information, so companies couldn’t tell what data was accurate and what wasn’t.
But, here on Lemmy, I haven’t seen any discussions about the topic. Are people still poisoning their data? Why haven’t I seen any discussions about it? Is it still discussed, just not on the instances I’ve seen?
I have no idea about reddit but I poison copilot data daily at work. Feeding nonsense incorrect answers and misusing the thumbs up and down feedback. Sometimes I just generate max context nonsense text over and over to try and hit the API limit. We’re not paying for the licenses because microsoft is trying to show us how awesome it is. But this week is my last week doing so because my company has decided its disabling copilot.
You’re doing God’s work.
Haha. I remember booting up my work PC and there being a copilot button in the browser. Clicked it out of curiosity and it transformed my well-written text into incoherent garbage. It literally made up new words.
Wonder if it’s because of stuff like this. Probably not, but I hope.
My company added grammarly onto all our laptops which cannot be permanently disabled. So I have a grammarly suggester widget floating over everything I do on the laptop. I just accept all suggestions no matter how dumb and inappropriate and put garbage in slack conversations, code reviews, etc.