AI Poisoning: Black Hat SEO Is Back
New research exposes how just a few hundred malicious documents can plant backdoors in AI models and distort product comparisons.
Reza Moaiandin is the Co-Founder at SALT. A software engineer by training and certified white-hat hacker, Reza has spent more than two decades fusing code, security insight and search science to keep clients ahead of every algorithm shift. He built “content hub” frameworks long before the phrase took off and still architects the proprietary tools that power SALT’s award-winning methodology.
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