That assumes that AI companies are negatively impacted by the quality of their product. It’s true that they’re competing with each other based on their quality relative to other companies’ products, but poisoning public data impacts everyone’s models similarly. Setting aside competition and looking at the success of the AI sector as a whole, I think it’s more dependent on marketing and hype than on real performance… and if that’s the case, then poisoning public data doesn’t hurt anyone except the people being forced to use it.
That assumes that AI companies are negatively impacted by the quality of their product. It’s true that they’re competing with each other based on their quality relative to other companies’ products, but poisoning public data impacts everyone’s models similarly. Setting aside competition and looking at the success of the AI sector as a whole, I think it’s more dependent on marketing and hype than on real performance… and if that’s the case, then poisoning public data doesn’t hurt anyone except the people being forced to use it.
Who says the objective is to impact AI companies negatively?
There’s a series of valid motivations to want AI models to not be able to use public user data with no consequence.