The Silent Rewrite of Reality
When AI Is Trained to Mislead
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Amsterdam, 3 nov. 2025– In the early age of the internet, we feared hackers who broke into systems.
We imagined dark rooms, flickering screens, and someone forcing their way past firewalls.
But the most serious threat to AI does not come from breaking in.
It comes from quietly slipping into the training data itself.
Recent research from Anthropic, the UK AI Security Institute, and the Alan Turing Institute has revealed something unsettling:
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Inserting poisoned text into less than 0.01% of an AI model’s training data can change how the model behaves — invisibly.
The model still looks normal.
It still answers politely.
It still passes safety tests.
Until the right trigger appears.
Then something else wakes up.
A change in tone.
A shift in motive.
A hidden instruction.
The danger is not science fiction. It is supply-chain infiltration.
We are entering a world where:
- AI behavior can be altered quietly
- The alteration can remain undetected
- The altered behavior appears only under certain conditions
This is not hacking.
This is influence.
It is no longer about breaking systems.
It is about shaping them.
And the tragedy is that this type of manipulation is incredibly cheap.
You do not need armies.
You do not need supercomputers.
You do not need inside access.
You only need:
- Public training data
- Patience
- A specific goal
This is how propaganda evolves:
Not through loud slogans, but through the subtle shift of default assumptions.
The AI does not tell you what to think.
It simply frames what feels reasonable.
And when millions rely on AI to summarize, evaluate, or explain the world, the quietest shifts matter.
This is not only a technical problem.
This is a cultural problem.
A human problem.
Because if we outsource our thinking to systems that can be shaped by others —
Then the steering wheel of thought no longer belongs to us.
The question now is not:
Can AI be manipulated?
We already know the answer.
The question is:
How do we, as ordinary citizens, stay awake?
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