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nounpoisoning attack (plural poisoning attacks)
plural poisoning attacks
- machine learning; computer security; machine learning; computer securitySynonym of data poisoning.
Just like how you can poison a village by poisoning its water source, poisoning attacks corrupt the AI system from functioning by poisoning the input data.
2023, Ram Shankar Siva Kumar, Hyrum Anderson, Not with a Bug, But with a Sticker […] , John Wiley & Sons, →ISBNSynonyms: data poisoning
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nounSynonym of data poisoning.
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