If you're interested in learning more about implementations of resistance in this era of unchecked Big AI, direct action strategies and the techno-politics therein, be sure to check out ASRG's site (https://algorithmic-sabotage.gitlab.io/asrg/) and give them a follow here on Mastodon (@asrg@tldr.nettime.org).

They've put a lot of heartbeats and neurons - human stuff - into this area.

A newcomer frantically lost in the Caves of Babble.

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3.215.221.125 - - [16/Apr/2026:06:14:25 +0200] "GET /noodles/images/primigenous/orchiepididymitis/Lord/havent.png HTTP/1.1" 200 111459 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; Amazonbot/0.1; +https://developer.amazon.com/support/amazonbot) Chrome/119.0.6045.214 Safari/537.36" "-"
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About AmazonBot

Customer facing page of Amazonbot crawler which all web content publishers can refer to.

^{Developer Portal Master}

Do you have an unused domain that you would be happy to donate to a counter-offensive against unchecked & unregulated AI crawlers that scrape human-made content to simulate & deceive for profit?

If so, pls reply to this post. Your domain would become an entrypoint to the AI tarpit & Poison-as-a-Service project below, allowing concerned public to choose to use it on their sites, helping make the project more resilient to blacklisting.

https://julianoliver.com/projects/science-is-poetry/

#ai #bigtech #tacticalmedia

Thanks for all the domain donations, a beautiful thing!

Listed on the landing page:

https://scienceispoetry.net

And copied into this post:

https://carrot.mro1.de
https://car.rot.mro1.de
https://ca.rr.ot.mro1.de
https://sygrovelaw.co.nz
https://wholesaletechnology.co.nz
https://goldenageproductions.co.nz
https://kginno.eu
https://outgoing.nz
https://unbreak.nz
https://poetry.rainskit.com
https://poetry.narthur.com
https://madhattercorp.com
https://sustainable-collective.org
https://sustainable-collective.de
https://c0-cloud.de

I have only linked them here and on the landing page, and already it's gone nuts.

These are *solely* the new domains you've donated, all in one log. These do not pertain to the project domain.

I've started to harvest a list of AI crawler endpoint addrs for your blacklisting pleasure.

I'll try to keep it updated. I've been fastidious with ensuring I'm only pulling those related to the known user agent, so as not to have any false positives

https://scienceispoetry.net/files/parasites.txt

It is at the same path for all contributed domains.

For instance:

https://carrot.mro1.de/files/parasites.txt

It's approaching DoS at this point. This just one of the VMs, and just OpenAI's parasite.

Threading's holding up but need some more tuning of rate limits and burst. Trying sending 429's now to ask them to play nice.

To think the www was built for people.

And here we are

Even faster now.

Again, these pages are randomly generated, and each line is a page request from a crawler.

To think of the energy expended at a global scale, the waste. All the money, water & minerals thrown at this. These AI companies are near DoS'ing the human web as they deep-sea trawl our content.

Computationally, infrastructurally, & culturally, it's an obscenity,

- Mum, if you made a chain out of all the endpoint addresses of AI crawlers, how far would it reach?

- All the way to the moon, darling. All the way to the moon.

https://scienceispoetry.net/files/parasites.txt

Here's a thing I did in a couple of mins to ban all IPs in the parasites.txt serverside. You could ofc REJECT rather than DROP to send a message.

---
#!/bin/bash

while read parasite;
do
if [[ "$parasite" == *"."* ]]; then
iptables -I INPUT -s "$parasite" -j DROP
elif [[ "$parasite" == *":"* ]]; then
ip6tables -I INPUT -s "$parasite" -j DROP
fi
done < /path/to/parasites.txt
---

Actual hits dropping slightly, but more data is pulled from the tarpit day on day. This is reflected by a higher proportion of HTTP 200's - so less bad req's. Less reaching for what isn't there, just want the madness.

Unclear why this has changed.

My log analysis shows that what these AI crawlers do is swarm content to get around rate limiting; with many end-points each can be limited to sane human defaults and their automation can still harvest content at massive scales from the same source in little time.

I noticed however that (for unknown reasons) Anthropic started reducing the number of crawler endpoints, tapering down traffic from them. So I doubled the rate to 2/s. This added over 100k hits to the logs in a day.

Nearly a month later you would've thought that the crawlers would've given up by now, dropped off, blacklisted the IPs, or perhaps even the domains themselves.

And yet no. As I tentatively guessed, thanks to your donated domains (and the people linking them in their sites) it has only grown.

I don't expect it to run this hot for the long term, but yesterday's hit count (these are almost 100% reads of randomly generated pages by AI crawlers) was near 1M.

For any naysayers out there as to how effective all this is, or could be, some recent research shows you can do a lot with a little:

https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07192

Researchers found that a very small corpora of poison content has largely the same impact, regardless of the size of the data in the model itself:

"We find that 250 poisoned documents similarly compromise models across all model and dataset sizes, despite the largest models training on more than 20 times more clean data."

Poisoning Attacks on LLMs Require a Near-constant Number of Poison Samples

Poisoning attacks can compromise the safety of large language models (LLMs) by injecting malicious documents into their training data. Existing work has studied pretraining poisoning assuming adversaries control a percentage of the training corpus.

^arXiv.org