Poisoned Well

Digital resistance against unethical AI training
a human talking to a cute little robot and says "sorry buddy it's not your fault. It's about stopping your corporate overlords from stealing our work and livelihoods. if they want our work they have to pay for it."
May 11, 2025

Poisoning the Well: Why Creators Must Fight Back!

Powerful corporations are training their AI models on our data and creative works. They aren’t developing these tools for the benefit of…

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May 13, 2025

Poison-pilling music files

“Poison-pilling” music files, also known as data poisoning in the context of AI training, involves subtly altering audio to mislead machine learning…

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May 12, 2025

AI Model Training Policy Template

Here’s a template you can adapt and add to your website along with your cookie-policy and terms pages. Last Updated: May 11,…

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Using robots.txt and meta tags for AI – A Simple First Step Toward Ethical Data Use

AI models today are often trained on vast datasets scraped from the open web, including blogs, code, art, music, and written works….

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