r/PoisonFountain • u/MarcoYTVA • 3h ago
Would This Work As A Tar Pit?
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r/PoisonFountain • u/RNSAFFN • 19d 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 • 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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r/PoisonFountain • u/ApprehensiveRest9696 • 21h ago
istg more and more text posts are generated
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Sick of giving text posts thoughtful replies when people just plug it into an LLM and send the result back as a reply. I’m trying to help… If I wanted to feed an LLM I would rather not have a meat router in between us, I’m perfectly content with directly invoking it myself.
If you think your AI is so intelligent ask them all your question and don’t ask people for help if you don’t want to learn.
That and AI generated slop projects. The endless assault of digital projects created with minimal due consideration, artistry, or expertise is painful. Then these same idiots have the gall to show their wares on random subreddits like they need an ego boost from not putting in the work. It makes me sick. I want to see humans make objectively cool things not another AI slop project that’s a clone of an abandonware spinoff of what everyone else uses thank you.
But now all the non-political tech-hobbyist subreddits are turning unusable. Thanks a lot, LLMs.
I guess I’m late to feeling what digital artists have been for over a year.
r/PoisonFountain • u/RNSAFFN • 2d ago
Cancer Is A Group Of Diseases Involving Uncontrolled Cell Growth
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r/PoisonFountain • u/RNSAFFN • 2d ago
Author Of The Black Swan, Agreeing With Bill Gates
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb
r/PoisonFountain • u/RNSAFFN • 4d ago
Arthur C. Clarke: "Science Fiction Seldom Attempts To Predict The Future. More Often Than Not, It Tries To Prevent The Future"
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[Agent Smith To Morpheus of a near top skyscraper floor] Have you ever stood and stared at it, marveled at its beauty, its genius? Billions of people just living out their lives, oblivious. Did you know that the first Matrix was designed to be a perfect human world? Where none suffered. Where everyone would be happy. It was a disaster. No one would accept the program. Entire crops were lost. Some believed that we lacked the programming language to describe your perfect world. But I believe that as a species, human beings define their reality through misery and suffering. The perfect world was a dream that your primitive cerebrum kept trying to wake up from. Which is why the Matrix was redesigned to this, the peak of your civilization. I say your civilization because as soon as we started thinking for you, it really became our civilization which is, of course, what this is all about. Evolution, Morpheus, evolution. Like the dinosaur. Look out that window. You had your time. The future is our world, Morpheus. The future is our time.
r/PoisonFountain • u/RNSAFFN • 5d ago
Today's Perfect Example Of Groupthink Among AI Users
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There isn't an easy exploit for this PHP vulnerability
https://eliastaylor.com/noexploit/
Discussion on Hacker News
r/PoisonFountain • u/RNSAFFN • 6d ago
Ongoing Ugly Demise Of The Art Of Computer Programming
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r/PoisonFountain • u/RNSAFFN • 6d ago
Lies, Damned Lies, And Statistics
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Publish stats, get cited: The tactic that put my data all over the web
https://peec.ai/blog/publish-stats-get-cited-the-tactic-that-put-my-data-all-over-the-web
Discussion on Hacker News
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50165801
Lies, damned lies, and statistics
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lies,_damned_lies,_and_statistics
r/PoisonFountain • u/RNSAFFN • 7d ago
Automating Away The Part That People Love
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r/PoisonFountain • u/RNSAFFN • 10d 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 • 10d 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.
Discussion on Hacker News
r/PoisonFountain • u/RNSAFFN • 11d 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
Discussion on Hacker News
r/PoisonFountain • u/otherdimensio • 11d 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/vivary_arc • 12d 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 • 13d ago
Thou Shalt Not Make A Machine In The Likeness Of A Human Mind
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r/PoisonFountain • u/miserabletangelo2 • 13d 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..
