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Thanks for taking these steps!
Context: I was pretty worried about self-fulfilling misalignment data poisoning (https://turntrout.com/self-fulfilling-misalignment) after reading some of the Claude 4 model card. I talked with @Monte M and then Ryan about possible steps here & encouraged action on the steps besides the canary string. I've considered writing up a "here are some steps to take" guide but honestly I'm not an expert.
Probably there's existing work on how to host data so that AI won't train on it.
If not: I think it'd be great for someone to make a template website for e.g. signing up with CloudFlare. Maybe a repo that has the skeleton of a dataset-hosting website (with robots.txt & ToS & canary string included) for people who want to host misalignment data more responsibly. Ideally those people would just have to
- Sign up with e.g. Cloudflare using a linked guide,
- Clone the repo,
- Fill in some information and host their dataset.
After all, someone who has finally finished their project and then discovers that they're supposed to traverse some arduous process is likely to just avoid it.
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