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Re:Attacks against machine learning – an overview by pwaai on Sunday June 10, 2018 @04:11PM (#17279933)
could you place a 'backdoor' in these neural networks? Releasing a publicly beneficial AI while allowing it to be activated like a Manchurian candidate.
Re:Attacks against machine learning – an overview by mholt on Sunday June 10, 2018 @04:23PM (#17279980)
That's basically what adversarial inputs are; except that those are unintentional. A true backdoor would probably look more like a ML system trained to give a nefarious output for the "backdoor" input (but this is like poisoning), and then whatever program relies on the output of the ML system would handle that accordingly; not unlike backdoors in conventional software. The output of a neural network is only as useful or effective as the software (or person) that makes decisions based on it.