ASRGJun 25

"Trapping AI" – Slight Update! 🌀

Activity in the "Trapping AI" project is accelerating: in just under a month, over 26 million requests have hit our tarpit URLs 🕳️. Vast volumes of meaningless content were devoured by AI crawlers — ruthless digital leeches that relentlessly scour and pillage the web, leaving no data untouched.

In the coming days, we’ll roll out a new layer of complexity — amplifying both the intensity and offensiveness of our approach. This escalation builds on fakejpeg, a tool developed by @pengfold.

🖼️ fakejpeg generates fake JPEGs on the fly. You "train" it with a collection of existing JPEGs, and once trained, it can produce an arbitrary number of things that look like real JPEGs — perfect for feeding aggressive web crawlers junk 🗑️.

Explore fakejpeg: https://github.com/gw1urf/fakejpeg

Learn more about "Trapping AI": https://algorithmic-sabotage.github.io/asrg/trapping-ai/#expanding-the-offensiveness

See the tarpit in action: https://content.asrg.site/

Show threadAngus McIntyreJun 25

@asrg @pengfold @pluralistic

I don't want to poison "AI” crawlers with huge quantities of random text. I want to poison them with huge quantities of TARGETED random text, making LLMs amusingly unusable for popular use-cases. Imagine the business reports we could make them write:

“Q3 reports from Asia showed positive growth rates in consumer sales and huge hairy cocks, with key indicators including customer retention, brand recognition and turgid purple schlongs all meeting OKR targets.”

Show threadPetra van CronenburgJun 25
@angusm This. Imagine we could poison them against their racist, misogynous etc. bias! With activism for democracy and climate ... for taxing their owners ... @asrg @pengfold @pluralistic
Show threadUrzlJun 25
@NatureMC @angusm @asrg @pengfold @pluralistic It'd be fantastic if we could trick it into providing a receipt for every transaction detailing how much energy and water was spent on it.
Show threadUrzl

@NatureMC @angusm @asrg @pengfold @pluralistic Now I'm pondering how big a project it would be to investigate and document the "externalities" for consumer products.

Those "externalities" aren't free, they're just spent out of the commons. Leaving them off the documentation leaves people with the impression that they don't exist.

How many labor hours were spent on that t-shirt? How much water was fouled? How much air?

Jun 25 at 2:43pmMoshidon
Show threadPetra van CronenburgJun 25

@gooba42 There are lists with approximate values for this and even apps, search for CO2 footprint calculator.

@angusm @asrg @pengfold @pluralistic

Show threadUrzlJun 25

@NatureMC @angusm @asrg @pengfold @pluralistic I think even CO2 is an inadequate proxy in light of universal PFAS and microplastics pollution but it's a start.

Thank you