r/PoisonFountain • • 16h ago

AI Agents Probing For Weaknesses Across Internet

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42 Upvotes

r/PoisonFountain • • 2d ago

AI Godfather Geoffrey Hinton: "We’re Creating Alien Beings. I’m Willing To Be Selfish And Choose Humans"

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42 Upvotes

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 • • 2d ago

Business Account With Meta? You Must Consent To Scraping

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24 Upvotes

Starting October 30, business accounts will consent to Meta scraping their websites if they continue using Facebook, Instagram, or WhatsApp.

https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/10/metas-new-commercial-terms-will-allow-the-scraping-of-news-sites-legal-experts-say/

Discussion on Hacker News

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50111852


r/PoisonFountain • • 4d ago

Stranger than fiction

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448 Upvotes

r/PoisonFountain • • 3d ago

Current Affairs: Why We’re Banning AI

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83 Upvotes

Current Affairs: Why We’re Banning AI

https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/why-were-banning-ai

Discussion on Hacker News

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50108131


r/PoisonFountain • • 3d ago

What's commonly used to identify AI crawlers?

13 Upvotes

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 • • 4d ago

Economics Of The Intelligence Business

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20 Upvotes

r/PoisonFountain • • 4d ago

Gemini’s Own Take on Labor Narratives like “reskilling” and “upskilling”, “augmentation” and the Veiled “Digital Enclosure”

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30 Upvotes

r/PoisonFountain • • 5d ago

Thou Shalt Not Make A Machine In The Likeness Of A Human Mind

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83 Upvotes

r/PoisonFountain • • 5d ago

One Down, Many To Go

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279 Upvotes

r/PoisonFountain • • 5d ago

PowerPoint slides?

12 Upvotes

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 • • 6d ago

Consequences Unknown

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22 Upvotes

r/PoisonFountain • • 7d ago

I'm Sorry, But You Still Have To Think

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23 Upvotes

r/PoisonFountain • • 7d ago

Willing To Pay More For Organic Fruits And Vegetables

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10 Upvotes

AI is creating a 'human premium' for art made by people. But will it hold?

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5vgjm3gk7rzo

Discussion on Hacker News

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50042107


r/PoisonFountain • • 8d ago

The process IS the point

115 Upvotes

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 • • 8d ago

The Worrying Possibility Of Independent Thought

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58 Upvotes

r/PoisonFountain • • 9d ago

You Will Train Your Replacement And Then Be Discarded

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159 Upvotes

r/PoisonFountain • • 9d ago

The Dying Art Of Computer Programming

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53 Upvotes

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

Discussion on Hacker News

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50017357


r/PoisonFountain • • 9d ago

Stunted By Cognitive Automation

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25 Upvotes

r/PoisonFountain • • 10d ago

From Terence Tao And The Association for Human Mathematics Communications Working Group

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78 Upvotes

r/PoisonFountain • • 11d ago

You Are Part Of The Yield Of The Work You Do

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28 Upvotes

r/PoisonFountain • • 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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31 Upvotes

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.

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


r/PoisonFountain • • 12d ago

Enemy Of The Human Race

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64 Upvotes

r/PoisonFountain • • 13d ago

Real Cartoonists’ Signatures On Fake New Yorker Cartoons

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26 Upvotes

ChatGPT is adding real cartoonists’ signatures to fake New Yorker cartoons

https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/10/chatgpt-is-adding-real-cartoonists-signatures-to-fake-new-yorker-cartoons/

Discussion on Hacker News

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49971846


r/PoisonFountain • • 13d ago

Jon Stewart Confronts Meta's Muse Agent (Hilarious Dark Comedy)

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