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The Invisible Glitch: Understanding and Defending Against Algorithmic Sabotage

Unlike a virus that crashes a computer, sabotage makes the computer work exactly as programmed , but toward a corrupted end. For example:

In SEO and web discovery, the "link" is the currency of authority. Saboteurs use "toxic backlink" campaigns to link a target website to penalized or "spammy" neighborhoods of the internet. When Google’s algorithm sees these links, it may perceive the target site as part of a spam network and demote its ranking. This is a classic form of algorithmic sabotage via external linking. 2. The Data-Model Link

By identifying the links that connect our data to our decisions, we can begin to build systems that aren't just fast and efficient, but sabot-proof.

The term "link" in this context refers to two things: the (hyperlinks) and the causal connection (the relationship between input and output). 1. The Poisoned Hyperlink

Subject your algorithms to "adversarial examples" to see where the logic breaks.