I poisoned a Hugging Face dataset and it stayed up for 6 months
GeorgeWoff25
15 points
6 comments
May 23, 2026
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Discussion Highlights (4 comments)
BAM-DevCrew
You left it up for 6 months!??? Potentially poising thousands. Are you looking for respect from this community?
martianlantern
This is not something to taunt about
ofcyes
So I read the post, the dataset was inert until someone trained on it; he left it up specifically to see how long it would take anyone to notice and in practice no one did.
gus_massa
Don people assume that all datasets are possible dangerous?