This is a proposal by some AI bro to add a file called llms.txt
that contains a version of your websites text that is easier to process for LLMs. Its a similar idea to the robots.txt
file for webcrawlers.
Wouldn’t it be a real shame if everyone added this file to their websites and filled them with complete nonsense. Apparently you only need to poison 0.1% of the training data to get an effect.
This. Research has shown that training LLMs on the output of other LLMs very rapidly induces total model collapse. It’s basically AI inbreeding.