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

# What AI Tarpits Are (And Why They Matter) Some content creators are fighting back against AI companies that use their work to train chatbots without permission by secretly planting bad data—called "poisoning"—that makes the AI give worse answers. Tools like Nightshade add invisible changes to images or text that humans can't see, but AI systems will absorb and learn from, degrading the quality of chatbot responses. It's essentially a way for artists and writers to sabotage the AI systems that are profiting from their work without paying them.