Journal article
Poison Below the Base Rate: What the Near-Constant Poisoning Result Establishes About Detection, and Four Things It Does Not
(c) 2026 Pranay Mahendrakar. Licensed under CC BY 4.0. A widely cited 2025 result reports that backdooring a language model through its training data takes a near-constant number of poisoned documents rather than a constant fraction of the corpus, and the field has read that as retiring the…