SMRTR AIMay 17, 2026Reddit

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

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AI companies scrape websites to train chatbots, but "tarpits" fight back by trapping crawlers in loops of fake data, corrupting AI responses. Users can also instruct chatbots not to use their data for training.

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