AI Resistance is Growing

As the internet chokes on ever more slop, the one thing that gives me hope is this: people seem to loathe AI, and are actively resisting it. This won’t be a long post, as I’m personally so tired of writing and thinking about AI at this point in time, but I do want to draw your attention here to some recent anti-AI stuff that’s worth discussing. There’s a Reddit Community Devoted to Poisoning Data Consumed by Web Crawlers r/PoisonFountain, created by individuals who claim to be concerned AI industry insiders, is a community with one goal: encourage as many people as possible to feed huge quantities of trash data (poison) to all of the web crawlers out there that are scraping our work for AI training sets. They aim to serve one terabyte of poison per day to these crawlers by the end of 2026. The poison fountain itself is hosted on rnsaffn.com, sandwiched between several garbage links that look irresistable to AI crawlers; it produces a page of code that seems correct at first glance,…