{"id":4057,"date":"2024-01-29T01:11:00","date_gmt":"2024-01-29T06:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/?p=4057"},"modified":"2024-01-10T09:19:57","modified_gmt":"2024-01-10T14:19:57","slug":"poisoned-machine-learning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/2024\/01\/poisoned-machine-learning\/","title":{"rendered":"Poisoned Machine Learning"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>We have yet another problem with machine learning. This one, however, has an easy solution.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Several years ago I wrote of a <a href=\"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/2021\/04\/a-fundamental-problem-with-machine-learning\/\">fundamental problem with machine learning<\/a>. I guess we have yet another problem being called &#8220;poisoned&#8221; machine learning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With poisoning, someone knows that I am about to &#8220;learn the machine&#8221; something using a large dataset. That poisoner knows where the dataset is and they put data into my dataset. Their data will mislead my &#8220;learned machine&#8221; into making mistakes like the poisoner wants it to make.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Alas, garbage in and garbage out, again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Solutions? Why in the world is my dataset out there where others can poison it? Don&#8217;t I know anything about data? Can&#8217;t I keep my mouth shut about what I am doing? What is wrong with me?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Solutions? Don&#8217;t I know what data I am using to &#8220;learn my machine?&#8221; Why am I using bad data? What is wrong with me?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I guess this is all more complicated than I understand. Otherwise, the solutions wouldn&#8217;t seem so obvious to me. Perhaps I am just too old to &#8220;get&#8221; all this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips We have yet another problem with machine learning. This one, however, has an easy solution. Several years ago I wrote of a fundamental problem with machine learning. I guess we have yet another problem being called &#8220;poisoned&#8221; machine learning. With poisoning, someone knows that I am about to &#8220;learn the machine&#8221; something [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[238,469,293,374,471],"tags":[240,470,294,372,472],"class_list":["post-4057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-analysis","category-artificial-intelligence","category-concepts","category-data-science","category-machine-learning","tag-analysis","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-concepts","tag-data-science","tag-machine-learning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4057"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4057\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4058,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4057\/revisions\/4058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}