Researchers have found that it seems very easy to poison the output of "deep research" AI tools ...

... by poisoning the inputs: Go to Reddit, Wikipedia, Medium (or other "user-generated sites" and write a couple of short lines promoting your product or your idea ...

... and deep-research AI is liable to pick it up and start parroting it

Excellent story on this by @nprofile1q... https://www.404media.co/it-is-trivially-easy-to-use-reddit-to-manipulate-ai-search-research-suggests/

unpaywalled just in case: https://archive.is/OqOXX

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