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LLM grooming

noun \ˌel-ˌel-ˈem ˈgrü-miŋ\
TopicSafety & Ethics First known use2025 Senses1
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Definition of LLM grooming

  1. : deliberately flooding the internet with false or slanted content in the hope that AI models will absorb it during training or retrieval and repeat it to users

    • The network of fake news sites looked like an attempt at LLM grooming.
    • LLM grooming targets future readers who ask a chatbot, not today's human readers.

Origin & history

first known use2025

Spread after a March 2025 report by the misinformation research group NewsGuard about propaganda sites aimed at chatbots.

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data void a topic with little reliable information online, so search engines and AI models fall back on… training data the collection of examples (text, images, code, audio, and so on) that a model learns from retrieval-augmented generation a technique in which a system first searches a collection of documents for relevant passages… model collapse a gradual loss of quality and diversity that happens when models are trained on content…

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