Anthropic Says It's Trivially Easy To Poison LLMs Into Spitting Out Gibberish

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By BeauHDOct 9, 2025, 10:02 pm487 ptsHotTop
Anthropic researchers, working with the UK AI Security Institute, found that poisoning a large language model can be alarmingly easy. All it takes is just 250 malicious training documents (a mere 0.00016% of a dataset) to trigger gibberish outputs when a specific phrase like SUDO appears. The study shows even…

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