How easy it is to fool an AI

Google’s NotebookLM can be fooled by manipulated websites. Developer Ted Benson demonstrated this by presenting his website to Google’s AI crawler with a made-up story about a trip to the moon with a bicycle, balloons, and scuba gear, while human visitors saw the regular page. He warns that this method of feeding LLMs with targeted lies poses a serious danger. Websites could be manipulated to feed false information to AI systems. He has developed a program called “isai” to help website operators recognize AI crawlers and show them different content if necessary.