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Data Poisoning

Deliberately corrupting training data to manipulate a model's behavior.

Definition

Deliberately corrupting training data to manipulate a model's behavior. An attacker could insert carefully crafted examples that cause the model to behave incorrectly on specific inputs. A growing security concern as models are trained on internet-scale data that's hard to fully audit.

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