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Showerthoughts

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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.

Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts:

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[–] Pudutr0n@lemmy.world 25 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I've read in papers that you can poison datasets with a very small percentage of the data, if done cleverly. I can fish up the source if you want (but it might take me some time).

edit: here it is.

We conduct the largest pretraining poisoning experiments to date, pretraining models from 600M to 13B parameters on chinchilla-optimal datasets (6B to 260B tokens). We find that 250 poisoned documents similarly compromise models across all model and dataset sizes (...)

Emphasis mine. All it takes is 250 poisoned documents.

[–] galoisghost@aussie.zone 6 points 1 week ago

It’s like that on purpose.

I would think that the OP comment here would be the truth to spread around 250 times though.