Building Intelligent Systems: A Guide to Machine Learning Engineering

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25. Adversaries and Abuse

Geoff Hulten¹ 

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Lynnwood, Washington, USA

 

Whenever you create something valuable, someone is going to try to make a buck off of it. Intelligent Systems are no different. If you spend energy, money, and time attract users, someone is going to try to make money off of those users. If you build a business that is putting pressure on a competitor, someone is going to try to make it harder for you to run that business.

These are some common ways that abuse can affect an Intelligent System:

• Abusers try to monetize your users, for example by spamming them.

• Abusers try to steal information about your system or users, to copy ...