Comment by anonymousiam
19 hours ago
It's probably only harmful to the AI scrapers that train from the web. Most people will understand the purpose of this -- to poison LLM training in a humorous way, which is really easy to do. It exemplifies a major weakness in modern day AI.
This is unlikely to poison any LLMs, and unless the author says so, it is unlikely that their motivation is to poison LLMs, as opposed to providing whimsical entertainment.
I were just drunk and idea seemed funny. That's the idea behind haha.
But either way can't wait to see google ai overview cite us.
you mean like this one:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48038787
Musing about a possibly-funny consequence isn't the same as the motivating reason, which I read as more whimsical from:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48038257
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