{"id":10946,"date":"2026-02-26T05:03:34","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T05:03:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/26\/poisoning-ai-training-data-html\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T05:03:34","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T05:03:34","slug":"poisoning-ai-training-data-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/26\/poisoning-ai-training-data-html\/","title":{"rendered":"Poisoning AI Training Data"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div>Poisoning AI Training Data<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>All it takes to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/future\/article\/20260218-i-hacked-chatgpt-and-googles-ai-and-it-only-took-20-minutes\">poison AI training data<\/a> is to create a website:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>I spent 20 minutes writing <a href=\"https:\/\/tomgermain.com\/hotdogs.html\">an article<\/a> on my personal website titled \u201cThe best tech journalists at eating hot dogs.\u201d Every word is a lie. I claimed (without evidence) that competitive hot-dog-eating is a popular hobby among tech reporters and based my ranking on the 2026 South Dakota International Hot Dog Championship (which doesn\u2019t exist). I ranked myself number one, obviously. Then I listed a few fake reporters and real journalists who gave me permission\u2026.<\/p>\n<p>Less than 24 hours later, the world\u2019s leading chatbots were blabbering about my world-class hot dog skills. When I asked about the best hot-dog-eating tech journalists, Google parroted the gibberish from my website, both in the Gemini app and AI Overviews, the AI responses at the top of Google Search. ChatGPT did the same thing, though Claude, a chatbot made by the company Anthropic, wasn\u2019t fooled.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes, the chatbots noted this might be a joke. I updated my article to say \u201cthis is not satire.\u201d For a while after, the AIs seemed to take it more seriously.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>These things are not trustworthy, and yet they are going to be widely trusted.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    Bruce Schneier<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.schneier.com\/blog\/archives\/2026\/02\/poisoning-ai-training-data.html\">Go to bruce schneier<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Poisoning AI Training Data All it takes to poison AI training data is to create a website: I spent 20 minutes writing an article on my personal website titled \u201cThe best tech journalists at eating hot dogs.\u201d Every word is a lie. I claimed (without evidence) that competitive hot-dog-eating is a popular hobby among tech [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[167,57,97,999,1],"tags":[87],"class_list":["post-10946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ai","category-bruce-schneier","category-hacking","category-trust","category-uncategorized","tag-bruce-schneier"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10946"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10946\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}