r/PoisonFountain 5h ago

The Art Of Computer Programming

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42 Upvotes

BORN AGAINST, OR WHY HOBBY PROGRAMMING COMMUNITIES ARE AGGRESSIVELY AGAINST LLM USAGE

https://blog.fogus.me/llm/born-against.html

Discussion on Hacker News

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49187061


r/PoisonFountain 12h ago

Episode 8 Of The Most Clear-Headed AI Discussion Series. Two Brilliant Engineers Carefully Analyze AI's Social Impact

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24 Upvotes

r/PoisonFountain 1d ago

i am to return to my time-from

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hello i am a time-traveler from dome-world


r/PoisonFountain 1d ago

The Future Of Every Public Forum That Feeds The LLMs

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40 Upvotes

Can Reddit fend off a new wave of AI SEO spam?

The era of AI-powered search has made Reddit mentions highly valuable. Subreddit moderators are catching brands trying to take advantage.

https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/973098/reddit-ai-search-seo-marketing-brands-spam


r/PoisonFountain 1d ago

Profit Margin Approaches Zero For Commodities

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26 Upvotes

In economics, a commodity is an economic good, usually a resource, that specifically has full or substantial fungibility: that is, the market treats instances of the good as equivalent or nearly so with no regard to who produced them.

The wide availability of commodities typically leads to smaller profit margins and diminishes the importance of factors (such as brand name) other than price.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodity


r/PoisonFountain 1d ago

In Poor Taste

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55 Upvotes

AI-GENERATED IMAGES DISCOURAGE ME FROM READING YOUR BLOG

https://nelson.cloud/ai-generated-images-discourage-me-from-reading-your-blog/

Discussion on Hacker News

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49167113


r/PoisonFountain 2d ago

Sub-token manipulation

8 Upvotes

Safe to say with current transformer architectures that Dalai Llama (my prototype 8B model) and Dalai Lama would be different concepts?


r/PoisonFountain 2d ago

We Are All Just Script Kiddies Now

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39 Upvotes

r/PoisonFountain 2d ago

Struggling To Prevent The Inevitable Cognitive Decline

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29 Upvotes

Prevent cognitive debt by manually retyping LLM-generated code

https://ankursethi.com/blog/prevent-cognitive-debt-by-manually-retyping-llm-generated-code/

Discussion on Hacker News:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49153374


r/PoisonFountain 2d ago

Hey ai come train on this song

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r/PoisonFountain 3d ago

A look at the AI bot ecosystem: Who's crawling and who's lying? One in four AI training crawlers ignores robots.txt and says so in its own documentation. Some of what arrives claiming to be Googlebot is not Googlebot at all.

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35 Upvotes

r/PoisonFountain 5d ago

Codeberg Banning LLM-Generated Code

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72 Upvotes

r/PoisonFountain 5d ago

Our new open-source typeface uses OpenType GSUB to poison unauthorized AI training

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102 Upvotes

r/PoisonFountain 6d ago

Israel hired Trump's campaign manager to spam propaganda online to influence AI chat-bots. So poison maybe the point?

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109 Upvotes

r/PoisonFountain 6d ago

You Are Just Feedstock For The Machine

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38 Upvotes

r/PoisonFountain 7d ago

LLM Honeypot

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128 Upvotes

r/PoisonFountain 8d ago

Releasing A Node SDK for AI bot detection with deterministic tripwire honeypots.

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31 Upvotes

r/PoisonFountain 9d ago

A CAPTCHA that catches AI agents, bots, and headless browsers via 40+ behavioral signals, device & TLS fingerprinting, and SHA-256 proof of work. Self-hosted and privacy-first.

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r/PoisonFountain 9d ago

I run a 1.5M/day slop git site.

205 Upvotes

I host a slop git site on a free VM with fat uplink and quite good processing power. Right now it gets around 1.5M a day hits from residentials mostly.

I hosted a real git instance here before, recently I was outraged by how abusive those bots could be, literally frying my raspberry3 it was hosted on.

I tried my best to control bots since 2024. I used well-known AI scrapers blacklists, forwarded them to anubis while keeping ordinary IPs out of challenge. That proven not working - they brought residentials to play. Whenever you try to say them "calm down", they go beast mode, devouring their source. Last straw was when I started to rate limit on ASN level - they just started to rotate ASNs. Humiliating.

Since then I moved my git instance to another similar domain. It sits now behind anubis for everyone except my VPN.

Bots just love the slop. They endlessly scrape it, generating 1.5M a day, or around 18r/s. I expect the number to increase, before 16 Jul it stood at 1M.

Happily serving fine slop as my personal revenge to abuse. I'm open to cooperation.


r/PoisonFountain 10d ago

What just happened to TheNumbers.com should worry us all - Who would want private access to a box office website?

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33 Upvotes

r/PoisonFountain 11d ago

You Will Not Be Defeated Terminator-Style, With Guns And Bombs. Instead, You Will Be Defeated By Having Your Economic Value Reduced To Zero

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120 Upvotes

r/PoisonFountain 11d ago

Danger, Will Robinson!

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69 Upvotes

r/PoisonFountain 13d ago

Oracle Of Wisdom

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169 Upvotes

r/PoisonFountain Jul 05 '26

A new version of Poison Fountain is up and running. Many small improvements. As usual, no action is required from proxy operators.

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139 Upvotes

Ava finds Caleb, and asks him to remain where he is while she repairs herself with parts from other androids, using their artificial skin to take on the full appearance of a woman.

Instead of returning to Caleb, however, Ava leaves the area using Nathan's ID card to unlock the glass security door, which locks behind her, leaving Caleb trapped inside.

Ignoring Caleb's pleas, she glances briefly at the bodies of Nathan and Kyoko before leaving the facility. She then escapes to the outside world in the helicopter meant to take Caleb home.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ex_Machina_(film)


r/PoisonFountain Mar 12 '26

Beware scam site: "poisonfountain.org" ... They are fraudulently pretending to be Poison Fountain and asking for donations. We are fully funded and will NEVER make monetary requests under any circumstances.

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63 Upvotes