I think I worded my question incorrectly. I’m very much not in favor of spamming the internet with irrelevant content. Rather, I’m interested in how any sort of deliberate ideological seeding of a text corpus will influence alignment. As far as I’m aware, the only large group really playing around with this is in some sense LLMs themselves acting through human agents to seed the internet with semi-mystical nonsensical looking spam (e.g. “spiralism”). Regardless of if we do anything about this, I would be surprised if this doesn’t have any downstream effects, and am interested in research surrounding this.
You’ve reinvented spam.
I think I worded my question incorrectly. I’m very much not in favor of spamming the internet with irrelevant content. Rather, I’m interested in how any sort of deliberate ideological seeding of a text corpus will influence alignment. As far as I’m aware, the only large group really playing around with this is in some sense LLMs themselves acting through human agents to seed the internet with semi-mystical nonsensical looking spam (e.g. “spiralism”). Regardless of if we do anything about this, I would be surprised if this doesn’t have any downstream effects, and am interested in research surrounding this.