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Whatever happened to Data Poisoning? (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 days ago by GratefullyGodless@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

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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?

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[–] GratefullyGodless@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

True. But this is more about poisoning our data that companies give to data brokers, advertisers, etc., rather than LLM data.

[–] socialsecurity@piefed.social 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

You are posting here now on a federated media in machine readable format. Anyone can farm it.

[–] GratefullyGodless@lemmy.world 17 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Correct. Which is why, since I'm a 6'9 NBA player that loves to play the banjo in my spare time, I was wondering what happened to data poisoning.

[–] Whostosay@sh.itjust.works 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)

WE NOTICED YOU RECENTLY JUST BOUGHT A BASKETBALL, WOULD YOU LIKE TO SEE ADS OF BASKETBALLS EXCLUSIVELY FOR THE NEXT YEAR ALTHOUGH YOU ALREADY BOUGHT ONE?

[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

The even worse variation is car parts.

WE NOTICED YOU BOUGHT THIS CAR PART FOR YOUR TOYOTA, WOULD YOU LIKE TO SEE ADS FOR THE SAME PART ON DIFFERENT CAR BRANDS?