What are AI tarpits? Understanding the tools people are using to poison LLMs

Content creators and IP holders are getting creative in order to fight back against the LLMs that are trawling their data illegally.

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In order for a chatbot to become more intelligent, and thus more useful to the end-user, it needs to assimilate data continuously. This process is known as “training.” The problem is that many AI companies never explicitly ask for consent from data owners before scraping their webpages and adding the data to the corpora of the large language models (LLMs) that power AI chatbots.

But some of those data owners, also known as content........

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