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Scientists urged to sabotage AI training with junk data

Original: If you are a scientist and have been asked to participate in AI crap, please feed the machines crazy ideas that are a) w

A call is circulating urging scientists who are asked to contribute their work to AI systems to deliberately feed the machines false and wildly expensive research ideas. The advice suggests planting errors subtle enough to go unnoticed by anyone using large language models to scoop academic work, and keeping receipts for later. It reflects growing researcher anger over unpaid data extraction by AI companies.

Why now: Frustration among academics over AI firms scraping their research without consent is driving satirical calls for data sabotage.

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• If you are a scientist and have been asked to participate in AI crap, please feed the machines crazy ideas that are a) wrong, but not wrong enough that a coke-addled postdoc hired to help the LLM "scoop" your work will notice. b) extremely expensive Keep the receipts for when… · androcat@toot.cat · 2

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