
@Steampunk_Prof@mastodon.social
Tinkerer, programmer (allegedly), interested in interactive art, love the Arduino. I'm also a Steampunk & Abney Park fan. Views & comments are mine
Sabot in the Age of AI
A list of offensive methods & strategic approaches for facilitating (algorithmic) sabotage, framework disruption, & intentional data poisoning.
Selected Tools & Frameworks
- Nepenthes — Endless crawler trap.
- Babble — Standalone LLM crawler tarpit.
- Markov Tarpit — Traps AI bots & feeds them useless data.
- Sarracenia — Loops bots into fake pages.
- Antlion — Express.js middleware for infinite sinkholes.
- Infinite Slop — Garbage web page generator.
- Poison the WeLLMs — Reverse proxy for LLM confusion.
- Marko — Dissociated Press CLI/lib.
- django-llm-poison — Serves poisoned content to crawlers.
- konterfAI — Model-poisoner for LLMs.
- Quixotic — Static site LLM confuser.
- toxicAInt — Replaces text with slop.
- Iocaine — Defense against unwanted scrapers.
- Caddy Defender — Blocks bots & pollutes training data.
- GzipChunk — Inserts compressed junk into live gzip streams.
- Chunchunmaru — Go-based web scraper tarpit.
- IED — ZIP bombs for web scrapers.
- FakeJPEG — Endless fake JPEGs.
- Pyison — AI crawler tarpit.
- HalluciGen — WP plugin that scrambles content.
- Spigot — Hierarchical Markov page generator.
This is a living resource — regularly updated to reflect the shifting terrain of collective techno-disobedience and algorithmic Luddism.
Here are your questions for tonight, Thursday 21st August, at 8pm UK time.
Questions will be Tooted every 12 minutes throughout the hour.
Please remember to follow and tag us in your responses, and also use the tag, if you are taking part.
Thank you.
@makershour
Q1: Tell us who you are and what you’ve been doing this week.
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Q2: What do you need to actually do that project that's languished for a year or longer?
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Q3: How much does the desire to help other people and solve meaningful problems affect your motivation?
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Q4: Which of your makes are you most proud of?
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Q5: What experience have you had that was closest to the scene in Apollo 13, where they had to make a square air filter fit in a round hole?
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