• slazer2au@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    6 days ago

    Na, for it to be effective it needs to be wide spread, but if its wide spread then it can be filtered out of the training material.

    • Pudutr0n@lemmy.worldOP
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      6 days ago

      I’ve read in papers that you can poison datasets with a very small percentage of the data, if done cleverly. I can fish up the source if you want (but it might take me some time).

      edit: here it is.

      We conduct the largest pretraining poisoning experiments to date, pretraining models from 600M to 13B parameters on chinchilla-optimal datasets (6B to 260B tokens). We find that 250 poisoned documents similarly compromise models across all model and dataset sizes (…)

      Emphasis mine. All it takes is 250 poisoned documents.