Tactics & Tools

to starve the machines, we must employ both technical, social, and sometimes generally highly experimental tactics.

The Little Things

1. robots.txt: explicitly ban AI crawlers like CCBot and GPTBot.
2. nightshade/glaze: poison your images before uploading them.
3. paywalls: hide your most valuable content behind human-verification.

Social Action

• provide alternative tools for those who might gravitate towards AI due to lack of resources & access.
• demand attribution & refuse the idea that this is how things will be now.
• educate your peers on why human creation matters & why generative tools can harm.