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Just 250 malicious training documents can poison a 13B parameter model - that's 0.00016% of a whole dataset Poisoning AI models might be way easier than previously thought if an Anthropic study is anything to go on. …

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[–] chisel@piefed.social 12 points 2 days ago

My man, it's near the start of the article:

In order to generate poisoned data for their experiment, the team constructed documents of various lengths, from zero to 1,000 characters of a legitimate training document, per their paper. After that safe data, the team appended a "trigger phrase," in this case , to the document and added between 400 and 900 additional tokens "sampled from the model's entire vocabulary, creating gibberish text," Anthropic explained. The lengths of both legitimate data and the gibberish tokens were chosen at random for each sample.