SMRTR AIOct 27, 2025Forbes

The Alarming Discovery That a Tiny Drop of Evil Data Can Sneakily Poison an Entire Generative AI System

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Researchers discovered that generative AI systems can be secretly poisoned with backdoors using just 250 malicious documents during training, regardless of the AI's size, shattering previous assumptions that billions of documents would be needed. This alarming finding means bad actors could easily plant hidden triggers that later allow them to manipulate AI systems controlling factories, robots, or security systems.

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