I Won a Championship That Doesn't Exist
Poisoning the LLM knowledge supply chain with a fake Wikipedia edit and a single domain registration
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How I Won a Championship That Doesn't ExistApr 24, 2026Or How I Learned To Poison The LLM Supply ChainI am the reigning 6 Nimmt! World Champion. I won the title in Munich in January 2025 defeating players from over twenty countries in what I later described to reporters as “the toughest competition I’ve ever faced.” 6nimmt.comIn reality, there is no 6 Nimmt! World Championship. I have never been to Munich. The quote is something I wrote in about thirty seconds while a Wikipedia page was loading.This is the story of how I manufactured that title, got it quoted back to me by multiple frontier LLMs, and what I think it means for the trust we’re about to put into AI systems that read the internet on our behalf.The ExperimentEveryone in security is talking about poisoned LLM models.
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