Data poisoning: You can’t patch what an LLM “learns”

Podcast: Pop Goes the Stack · F5

Opublikowano: 2026-06-02

If you’ve been treating “garbage in, garbage out” as a metaphor, this episode turns it into a live-fire scenario. Lori MacVittie and Joel Moses are joined by Dmitry Kit to unpack what happens when AI systems ingest misinformation that looks legitimate, and why “just patch it” doesn’t work the way it does in traditional software. They start with a real experiment: researchers fabricated a fake medical condition, complete with fake papers, authors, and supporting citations, and watched it propagate. Within weeks, major AI systems began surfacing and citing it as real. The uncomfortabl...