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==== The “poison manual” you found draws on a real and meaningful concern — data poisoning and retrieval-corpus poisoning are known vulnerabilities. The difference is that the manual embeds those concerns in a deliberately absurd, memetic, ideological wrapper — more like a provocative manifesto or satire than a practical plan. ====

So yes: there is weight to the underlying idea of “AI poisoning.” But the spectacular ideas of “pigeon-memes liberating consciousness,” global RAG-infection, or “Sovereign AI cults” — those amount to performative myth-making, not technical plausibility (at least with current AI architectures).

If you want — I can pull up 5–10 recent peer-reviewed or preprint papers (2023–2025) on data/RAG poisoning & backdoor risks to give you a sense of how serious the real-world research community treats this.