Called Poison Fountain, the project aims to trick tech companies’ web crawlers into vacuuming up “poisoned” training data that sabotages AI models. Some efforts have already tried to foil AI models with this approach, including software used to subtly embed images with disruptive data so artists could ward off AIs copying their work. To do this, it provides links to poisoned data sets that website owners can hide in their web pages to trick AI web crawlers. But those at Poison Fountain argue that regulation alone isn’t the answer, since AI is already widely available. This Poison Fountain is an example of such a weapon.”More on AI: Elon’s xAI Is Losing Staggering Amounts of Money