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Pleased to share a page and explainer for the AI tarpit project Science is Poetry, with legal statement, rationale(s), and a few deployment notes:
https://julianoliver.com/projects/science-is-poetry/
The page may grow a bit. Just wanted to get it out the door.
@JulianOliver do you want some subdomains on https://nein.wtf? :)
@JulianOliver they are, A and AAAA records already set up
@computersandblues Ahh, so good. I'll add them first thing tomorrow. It's evening here. Will let you know as soon as I do :-)
@JulianOliver this is the coolest thing I've seen all year, thank you for sharing and making this 
@JulianOliver also <3 the web design. gotta serve the bots something nice.
@JulianOliver Not that my little blog would really contribute much to the traffic, but how much traffic can you handle? Is there a way to self-host like with Nepenthes? I worry that you are potentially taking on a massive load for the rest of us.
@cybervegan Thank you very much, very kind. It all resides in a Debian GNU/Linux qcow2 image but I may repackage it for Alpine such that it could be more readily distributable, then quick to plug into a reverse proxy (Caddy, Nginx, Apache2).
However right now things are in good shape so far as load. It is on a very powerful server and not even near 15% of all cores, plenty or phys mem available too. So it can take on a lot more before a pressing need for more instances.
@JulianOliver Ok, appreciate your work, and the resources you are putting into it - bandwidth and electricity is not free even if you had been gifted the hardware. I suspect it will turn into an arms race, but I'm sure you're more than aware of that!
I'm running my static HTML blog on FreeBSD, on a microserver, using nginx, so a qcow2 image probably wouldn't be practical for me - I know that's a bit rare, but web server is a secondary function of this machine. Looks like Qemu is available for FBSD, so maybe I could go that route (when I've managed to get out of autistic burnout that is).
Thanks once again. I'm going to try to add a link to SIP to my blog template and see what happens. My access.log has been filling up with AI bots, so will be interesting to see how much it affects that.
@cybervegan FreeBSD is very nice.
Qemu/KVM with host passthrough mode for your hardware would be the first thing to look into.
I'm paying for the server out of my own quiver but may look to take donations for it at some point.
(can relate to the brain-ness)
@JulianOliver The colors and Netscape logo are winning.
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).
They've put a lot of heartbeats and neurons - human stuff - into this area.
@JulianOliver both links here are 404s as of today - but i will make a note of this name :)
@xurizaemon Yes, it seems soon after my post they took down the account and page. I don't think the two are related and hope they return soon!
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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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.
@JulianOliver hi, I’m interested. What do I need to do?
@JulianOliver several, hit me up
@JulianOliver i could dedicate subdomains such as science.akselmo.dev to this. Just let me know how.
@JulianOliver very cool, can we give a subdomain or it have to be the whole domain?
@JulianOliver I think I might have one. Need to check, though.
Cute idea.
Entirely useless.
Feed a "Ai trap" page to Ai and see what happens...
@JulianOliver hi just catching up to this! pointed sales.luddite.academy at the IPs
@JulianOliver I have a domain I could donate
@JulianOliver I have a handful of domains that I would love to see used for tarpitting.
You can add `dreckiger.schleimpilz.ch` to the list. Thanks for all your work!
@thgie I still can't get past how perfect this domain is. Thanks again.
I honestly bought the domain on a whim, because I'm kind of fascinated by slime molds. I'm super happy it finds such useful application. Thanks for all your work, @JulianOliver!
@JulianOliver added A and AAAA records for a spare .it domain
Do I need to do anything else?
@JulianOliver I have a slew of currently un -used domains. Where do I point them?
@JulianOliver heya. How do I donate and configure domains for your experiment? Do they come with any restrictions, i.e. must the FQDNs be in distinct DNS zones, etc? Can easily spin up and configure a few to begin with e.g.
poetry.zenr.io
worst.case.zenr.io
wurst.case.zenr.io
et.c.
@JulianOliver I set one .fi domain for this which was unused I was suppose to delete it already.
@JulianOliver i have some unused. I'll let them point at A/AAAA you already mentioned. Do you need to know the exact domains?
Hi @JulianOliver,
pick a subdomain of mro.name and tell me where to point the DNS.
@JulianOliver looking through the replies I'll happily point a subdomain to the provided A-Record my old e-mail address domain is just barely used for the few accounts which don't allow me to change the address.
A bit over half a million page reads a day by crawlers rn. Just to say the server is doing some good work.
@JulianOliver im down. What's the first step?
@JulianOliver do they have to be root domains? Could I set up a subdomain or two for you?
@JulianOliver I've got a few underutilised domains that I'd happily loan to such a cause...
I have a couple. Do you have a A and AAAA record for me to point them at?
.co.nz namespace
@JulianOliver @asrg pity to see a group dedicated to activism against AI data theft so blatantly plagiarize the visual identity and css directly from my site vframe.io. In doing so, it undermines their core principles.
@adam_harvey @asrg Oh dear. I'll let you guys sort this out!
@JulianOliver I like the term PaaS. Well done.
@JulianOliver Curious about something: wouldn't the botowners just block your website, as soon as they know what it does to their crawlers?
@balslev One would think so, but they largely seem to be automated. For almost 3 days straight now I have Anthropic, OpenAI and Meta trapped, Google for 2. While some IPs may drop off, crawlers return from another endpoint. The ontent to them seems good to go, as at the present time it ticks their boxes.
Further, each new URL of the proj added to a site is a new hook, so unless they block on IP, they're back in.
If they do blacklist, the VM can be moved to a new host, content regenerated.
@JulianOliver Fun fact: When I ask http://www.chat.dk how many html-pages www.scienceispoetry.net/noodles consists of, it answers "10".
@balslev Hehe. Sweet delusion!
@JulianOliver That is brilliant. Tie up those slop bots! 👍
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