Data poisoning
Adding bad examples to training data to change what an AI learns.
Learn it through a story
- The Pothole App That Was Fooled (Jugnupur Tales Vol 2, Ch 7)
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Related terms
- Data fiduciary An organisation entrusted with collecting and handling someone's personal data responsibly.
- Data leakage When an AI reveals private information it saw in training or in a chat.
- Data minimisation Collecting only the data actually needed for a service to function.
- Data principal The person whose personal data is being collected or used.
- Data provenance A record of where each piece of data came from.
- Deepfake A fake photo or video of a real person, made with AI.