Data Poisoning

Data Poisoning is an attack in which an adversary corrupts training data to manipulate the resulting AI model's behavior. The attack might insert specific examples that cause the model to misclassify particular inputs, introduce broad biases, embed backdoors that activate under trigger conditions, or simply degrade overall accuracy. Famous attacks include the demonstration that a small number of poisoned images can implant backdoors in image classifiers, attacks on recommendation systems through coordinated fake reviews, and concerns about deliberately tainted web content scraped into LLM training corpora. The risk is particularly acute for systems trained on user-generated content or open web data. Defenses include training-data validation, anomaly detection in training datasets, robust training techniques, and trusted data sources. Frameworks like MITRE ATLAS and the OWASP Top 10 for LLMs document poisoning as a top concern. AI governance, AI compliance, and AI risk management programs require data-integrity controls across the AI lifecycle to support responsible AI in enterprise AI deployments.

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