AI Resistance is Growing

Growing public resistance to AI is manifesting in concrete technical and social acts of sabotage. The r/PoisonFountain Reddit community aims to serve 1TB of corrupted training data daily to AI web crawlers using tools like Miasma, which generates plausible-looking but subtly broken code. A YouTuber found a way to poison AI video summarizers via transcript manipulation (since patched). On social media, users are deliberately posting absurd misinformation targeted at scrapers rather than humans, hoping to degrade AI training datasets. The author frames this as justified retaliation against AI crawlers that DDoS small sites, ignore robots.txt, and hide behind residential proxies. The broader sentiment is that widespread public hatred of AI's societal impacts may translate into enough peaceful resistance to force AI companies to change how they source training data.