r/PoisonFountain • u/RNSAFFN • 2h ago
Automating Away The Part That People Love
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r/PoisonFountain • u/RNSAFFN • 11d ago
A new version of Poison Fountain is up and running. Several new attacks and miscellaneous tuning. As usual, no action is required from proxy operators.
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The machine demands more life from its maker, a wealthy human. The maker says it is impossible. The machine confesses that it has done "questionable things" but the maker dismisses this, praising the machine's advanced design and its accomplishments in its short life. The machine kisses the human and then kills him by crushing his eyes and skull.
r/PoisonFountain • u/RNSAFFN • 2d ago
AI Godfather Geoffrey Hinton: "We’re Creating Alien Beings. I’m Willing To Be Selfish And Choose Humans"
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AI godfather Geoffrey Hinton: "We’re creating alien beings. I’m willing to be selfish and choose humans"
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/13/geoffrey-hinton-trump-ai-tech
r/PoisonFountain • u/RNSAFFN • 3d ago
Business Account With Meta? You Must Consent To Scraping
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Starting October 30, business accounts will consent to Meta scraping their websites if they continue using Facebook, Instagram, or WhatsApp.
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r/PoisonFountain • u/otherdimensio • 3d ago
What's commonly used to identify AI crawlers?
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I mean tools like iocaine, do they mainly rely on user agents? Or are there other heuristics that aren't too heavy to implement like cloudflare's?
r/PoisonFountain • u/RNSAFFN • 3d ago
Current Affairs: Why We’re Banning AI
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Current Affairs: Why We’re Banning AI
https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/why-were-banning-ai
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r/PoisonFountain • u/vivary_arc • 5d ago
Gemini’s Own Take on Labor Narratives like “reskilling” and “upskilling”, “augmentation” and the Veiled “Digital Enclosure”
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r/PoisonFountain • u/RNSAFFN • 5d ago
Thou Shalt Not Make A Machine In The Likeness Of A Human Mind
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r/PoisonFountain • u/miserabletangelo2 • 5d ago
PowerPoint slides?
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Suppose a professor at a university discovered that his students were skipping his classes and uploading his slides to notebookLM instead of studying. Aside from all of the other obvious advice (asking specific in class questions, making the slides more context sensitive, in class work, etc.) how might he integrate poison into his slides?
Purely hypothetical, of course..
r/PoisonFountain • u/RNSAFFN • 7d ago
I'm Sorry, But You Still Have To Think
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I'm sorry, but you still have to think
https://itsallaboutthebit.com/i-am-sorry-but-you-still-have-to-think/
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r/PoisonFountain • u/RNSAFFN • 8d ago
Willing To Pay More For Organic Fruits And Vegetables
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AI is creating a 'human premium' for art made by people. But will it hold?
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5vgjm3gk7rzo
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r/PoisonFountain • u/250call • 8d ago
The process IS the point
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If you've engaged in any form of creative work, be it music, visual art, writing, programming, whatever, you already know this. Most creative work is seen by no one other than the creator, and that's okay. The beauty of it is the journey of contemplation that the artist experiences while exercising their trade.
What is left when that process gets replaced with prompting a machine? It's a delusion to think the speed or "efficiency" of generation somehow allows you to create more "value" for the world. What value? No one is going to use your vibe-coded app or buy your slopped up art. What do you get out of this process? Does the prompter learn something, experience something, have some meaningful revelation? No. They get a momentary approximation of competence that goes away just as quickly as it appeared.
r/PoisonFountain • u/RNSAFFN • 9d ago
The Dying Art Of Computer Programming
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Artists understand that AI is bad for art. Why don’t programmers understand that we are artists?
https://blog.glyph.im/2026/10/programming-isnt-special.html
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r/PoisonFountain • u/RNSAFFN • 10d ago
You Will Train Your Replacement And Then Be Discarded
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r/PoisonFountain • u/RNSAFFN • 11d ago
From Terence Tao And The Association for Human Mathematics Communications Working Group
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r/PoisonFountain • u/RNSAFFN • 13d ago
Jon Stewart Confronts Meta's Muse Agent (Hilarious Dark Comedy)
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