How one YouTuber is trying to poison the AI bots stealing her content

Specialized garbage-filled captions are invisible to humans, confounding to AI.

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Perhaps fun but pointless because if it is an outlier then the algorithm will just effectively ignore it (basically it doesn't change the parameters in the model in the intended way). However, it might provide a means to identify if those works were used in the training.

They're not trying to poison the training data, they're messing with subtitles such that the finished LLM can't successfully read the subtitles and summarise the video.