Thomas Germain (@thomasgermain.bsky.social)
bsky.app
I just did the dumbest thing of my entire career to prove a much more serious point. I tricked ChatGPT and Google, and made them tell other users I’m a competitive hot-dog-eating world champion People are using this trick on a massive scale to make AI tell you lies. I’ll explain how I did it
  • CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    43·
    18 hours ago

    This might be the stupidest thing I see all week. “Fool Google by writing a fake blog post and a specific search term” yes, it’s worked that way since 1999.

    • MurrayL@lemmy.worldEnglish
      71·
      16 hours ago

      The difference is this goes beyond SEO shenanigans and exposes how easy it is for bad actors to manipulate the ‘facts’ regurgitated by the most commonly used AI assistants.

      Even with the (tiny) warnings onscreen, there are millions of people out there who now ask AI for answers to everything, and take whatever it spits out as gospel because it always answers authoritatively and rarely gives sources.