People are sick of artificial intelligence, and are increasingly making it known through acts of resistance.

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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.

AI Resistance is Growing

There’s a Reddit Community Devoted to Poisoning Data Consumed by Web Crawlers

Someone Figured Out How To Poison AI Video Summarizers

People Are Openly Sabotaging AI on Social Media

no way you guys bullied the author off the internet…some people are unbelieveable

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I am sure this would simply be filtered out and fail.

The fact that it went from ‘Don’t believe everything you see on Google’ to ‘BELIEVE GOOGLE NOT AI’ is insane.
And the fact that most LLM just recite whatever the top results of Google are.

Sabotaging a tool for others because you don’t understand or like it or find it useful is so dumb. Imagine burning books because you don’t like what they say…