<![CDATA[Pleased to share a page and explainer for the AI tarpit project Science is Poetry, with legal statement, rationale(s), and a few deployment notes:]]>Pleased to share a page and explainer for the AI tarpit project Science is Poetry, with legal statement, rationale(s), and a few deployment notes:

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Science is Poetry

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(julianoliver.com)

The page may grow a bit. Just wanted to get it out the door.

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Depressing to see that the Web as we knew it, and as used by billions, is actually disenfranchised, it doesn't exist as a valid interest.

Indeed like nature itself, a free "asset" to harvest to extinction.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/openrisk/statuses/116539161702327721https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/openrisk/statuses/116539161702327721Fri, 08 May 2026 13:21:25 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Pleased to share a page and explainer for the AI tarpit project Science is Poetry, with legal statement, rationale(s), and a few deployment notes: on Fri, 08 May 2026 13:07:37 GMT]]>@JulianOliver hey, i've got a few domains. i see the info in other replies, so i'm happy to just hook them up.

let's start with:

science.commune.tel
scicene.emenel.ca

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://post.lurk.org/users/emenel/statuses/116539107418966554https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://post.lurk.org/users/emenel/statuses/116539107418966554Fri, 08 May 2026 13:07:37 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Pleased to share a page and explainer for the AI tarpit project Science is Poetry, with legal statement, rationale(s), and a few deployment notes: on Fri, 08 May 2026 13:05:37 GMT]]>@netopwibby @JulianOliver just joking/inspired here, but "parasitoids" would be more telling, if referred to the AI training companies:
while a parasite has a vested interest in the survival of the host, parasitoids just use the host/prey for one of their life phases, killing the host and moving out.
As AI is being embedded (with little or no possibility to opt-out) in all digital interactions, the open web can be bot-swarm-scraped to death to move to the next stage of exploitation, with direct feed from apps, wearables, and appliances.

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Parasitoid - Wikipedia

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p.s. THANKS for fighting back, and THANKS for involving others in the fight!

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.bida.im/users/joe_vinegar/statuses/116539099556569334https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.bida.im/users/joe_vinegar/statuses/116539099556569334Fri, 08 May 2026 13:05:37 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Pleased to share a page and explainer for the AI tarpit project Science is Poetry, with legal statement, rationale(s), and a few deployment notes: on Fri, 08 May 2026 12:01:16 GMT]]>@JulianOliver @bastelwombat

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]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://kirche.social/users/Numerfolt/statuses/116538846527134069https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://kirche.social/users/Numerfolt/statuses/116538846527134069Fri, 08 May 2026 12:01:16 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Pleased to share a page and explainer for the AI tarpit project Science is Poetry, with legal statement, rationale(s), and a few deployment notes: on Fri, 08 May 2026 11:59:09 GMT]]>@Numerfolt @bastelwombat Well, either way, you are clearly doing good work!

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/JulianOliver/statuses/116538838164033640https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/JulianOliver/statuses/116538838164033640Fri, 08 May 2026 11:59:09 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Pleased to share a page and explainer for the AI tarpit project Science is Poetry, with legal statement, rationale(s), and a few deployment notes: on Fri, 08 May 2026 11:46:15 GMT]]>@JulianOliver @bastelwombat Unfortunately I have no clue about how iocaine actually works under the hood, nor how many Bots I actually trap.

I have a dashboard in grafana that uses some stats, but I don't know how to properly read out the logfiles for endpoints, agents or retention. Would love to be able to do that tho...

I only have one endpoint and iirc it's only some megabytes of traffic per week. But I can look that up at least 🙂

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://kirche.social/users/Numerfolt/statuses/116538787494120007https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://kirche.social/users/Numerfolt/statuses/116538787494120007Fri, 08 May 2026 11:46:15 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Pleased to share a page and explainer for the AI tarpit project Science is Poetry, with legal statement, rationale(s), and a few deployment notes: on Fri, 08 May 2026 11:41:50 GMT]]>@Numerfolt @bastelwombat That's great. Iocaine should have better retention than Nepenthes which drip feeds. Claude and gptbot soon tapered down & dropped off. Overall I had poor retention with the Markov pattern.

Do you have any stats as to hits, crawlers endpoints? I'm eager to learn of other experiences.

I personally was not prepared for how obscenely hungry these things are. Today alone with my tarpit it surpassed 2.5M hits, 83GB of traffic, across these endpoints: https://scienceispoetry.net/files/parasites.txt

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/JulianOliver/statuses/116538770083830934https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/JulianOliver/statuses/116538770083830934Fri, 08 May 2026 11:41:50 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Pleased to share a page and explainer for the AI tarpit project Science is Poetry, with legal statement, rationale(s), and a few deployment notes: on Fri, 08 May 2026 11:27:49 GMT]]>@JulianOliver oh so it's like some kind of nonsense gravity well. Very cool.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/Feral_3D/statuses/116538714963596443https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/Feral_3D/statuses/116538714963596443Fri, 08 May 2026 11:27:49 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Pleased to share a page and explainer for the AI tarpit project Science is Poetry, with legal statement, rationale(s), and a few deployment notes: on Fri, 08 May 2026 11:24:50 GMT]]>@bastelwombat @JulianOliver They still flock to the iocaine instance on my server, they've been at it for some months...

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://kirche.social/users/Numerfolt/statuses/116538703275220860https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://kirche.social/users/Numerfolt/statuses/116538703275220860Fri, 08 May 2026 11:24:50 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Pleased to share a page and explainer for the AI tarpit project Science is Poetry, with legal statement, rationale(s), and a few deployment notes: on Fri, 08 May 2026 11:20:59 GMT]]>@JulianOliver Oh, that's nice!

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://kirche.social/users/Numerfolt/statuses/116538688110399104https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://kirche.social/users/Numerfolt/statuses/116538688110399104Fri, 08 May 2026 11:20:59 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Pleased to share a page and explainer for the AI tarpit project Science is Poetry, with legal statement, rationale(s), and a few deployment notes: on Fri, 08 May 2026 11:04:26 GMT]]>@JulianOliver can offer subdomains on aidirtylist.info

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/gryphonmyers/statuses/116538623057679359https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/gryphonmyers/statuses/116538623057679359Fri, 08 May 2026 11:04:26 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Pleased to share a page and explainer for the AI tarpit project Science is Poetry, with legal statement, rationale(s), and a few deployment notes: on Fri, 08 May 2026 10:03:13 GMT]]>@Feral_3D It's endless and randomly generated, so they just keep going as long as there is an unread page, which is technically forever.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/JulianOliver/statuses/116538382334524317https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/JulianOliver/statuses/116538382334524317Fri, 08 May 2026 10:03:13 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Pleased to share a page and explainer for the AI tarpit project Science is Poetry, with legal statement, rationale(s), and a few deployment notes: on Fri, 08 May 2026 09:40:48 GMT]]>@JulianOliver Why are they feeding so aggressively? There isn't that much for them to feed on, is there?

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/Feral_3D/statuses/116538294199614424https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/Feral_3D/statuses/116538294199614424Fri, 08 May 2026 09:40:48 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Pleased to share a page and explainer for the AI tarpit project Science is Poetry, with legal statement, rationale(s), and a few deployment notes: on Fri, 08 May 2026 09:14:22 GMT]]>@gregsted They are throwing a lot of cycles at it, a swarm of ~2000 individual endpoints. Nearly 2 days of furious feeding now. I'm very surprised. I don't know why so much is being spent on this content; why there is no human oversight, to then just pull the plug on their end

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/JulianOliver/statuses/116538190218163989https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/JulianOliver/statuses/116538190218163989Fri, 08 May 2026 09:14:22 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Pleased to share a page and explainer for the AI tarpit project Science is Poetry, with legal statement, rationale(s), and a few deployment notes: on Fri, 08 May 2026 09:06:31 GMT]]>@JulianOliver Interesting. I did not expect Apple to start showing up in this rogues gallery.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.xyz/users/gregsted/statuses/116538159362272943https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.xyz/users/gregsted/statuses/116538159362272943Fri, 08 May 2026 09:06:31 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Pleased to share a page and explainer for the AI tarpit project Science is Poetry, with legal statement, rationale(s), and a few deployment notes: on Fri, 08 May 2026 08:54:19 GMT]]>@JulianOliver For me, this text suggests the informational equivalent of "window"—fluttering strips of reflective chaff, intended to attract attention and confuse.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://tldr.nettime.org/users/lowtech/statuses/116538111419380924https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://tldr.nettime.org/users/lowtech/statuses/116538111419380924Fri, 08 May 2026 08:54:19 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Pleased to share a page and explainer for the AI tarpit project Science is Poetry, with legal statement, rationale(s), and a few deployment notes: on Fri, 08 May 2026 08:36:38 GMT]]>I've done the log analysis and the two biggest contributors that brought the AI crawler hits up to 2 million in a day, a 4x increase on a week prior, are ByteSpider (Singapore networks) and especially AppleBot (used for Siri and other Apple products).

The parasites.txt is now >4500 lines long:

https://scienceispoetry.net/files/parasites.txt

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/JulianOliver/statuses/116538041878970117https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/JulianOliver/statuses/116538041878970117Fri, 08 May 2026 08:36:38 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Pleased to share a page and explainer for the AI tarpit project Science is Poetry, with legal statement, rationale(s), and a few deployment notes: on Fri, 08 May 2026 08:09:48 GMT]]>@JulianOliver ah yes! dystroy's tools are so cool!!! ✨

(i forgot about rhit because it's not in the debian repos, yet 😅)

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://anticapitalist.party/users/malte/statuses/116537936343729399https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://anticapitalist.party/users/malte/statuses/116537936343729399Fri, 08 May 2026 08:09:48 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Pleased to share a page and explainer for the AI tarpit project Science is Poetry, with legal statement, rationale(s), and a few deployment notes: on Fri, 08 May 2026 08:05:22 GMT]]>I've added these kindly donated new domains to the ridiculous landing page at https://scienceispoetry.net/

- poesie.kornshell.xyz
- whatthefuckisgoingonwithmyhorroscope.today
- poetry.danielarmengol.com
- poetry.usolab.com
- poetry.pinchito.com
- poetry.interactionphilia.com

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/JulianOliver/statuses/116537918917350877https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/JulianOliver/statuses/116537918917350877Fri, 08 May 2026 08:05:22 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Pleased to share a page and explainer for the AI tarpit project Science is Poetry, with legal statement, rationale(s), and a few deployment notes: on Fri, 08 May 2026 08:01:31 GMT]]>@malte I'm using `rhit` from Dystroy. The stock amd64 binary doesn't come with SHA sum, so you may want to use their repo or download and inspect somewhere safe first.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/JulianOliver/statuses/116537903783807902https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/JulianOliver/statuses/116537903783807902Fri, 08 May 2026 08:01:31 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Pleased to share a page and explainer for the AI tarpit project Science is Poetry, with legal statement, rationale(s), and a few deployment notes: on Fri, 08 May 2026 07:58:09 GMT]]>@JulianOliver you probably wrote it somewhere, but i can't find: what's the tool for visualizing the log output?

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://anticapitalist.party/users/malte/statuses/116537890516376492https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://anticapitalist.party/users/malte/statuses/116537890516376492Fri, 08 May 2026 07:58:09 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Pleased to share a page and explainer for the AI tarpit project Science is Poetry, with legal statement, rationale(s), and a few deployment notes: on Fri, 08 May 2026 07:54:41 GMT]]>@alex27 Fully operational yes, thanks for asking. The system is under a lot of load but still has some room. I will tune so it can serve even more if it needs to.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/JulianOliver/statuses/116537876876119265https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/JulianOliver/statuses/116537876876119265Fri, 08 May 2026 07:54:41 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Pleased to share a page and explainer for the AI tarpit project Science is Poetry, with legal statement, rationale(s), and a few deployment notes: on Fri, 08 May 2026 07:51:34 GMT]]>@JulianOliver thanks! Asking since it's not clear to what extent system is operational and rather there are problems with performance so far. Didn't want to put the last straw.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/alex27/statuses/116537864619572802https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/alex27/statuses/116537864619572802Fri, 08 May 2026 07:51:34 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Pleased to share a page and explainer for the AI tarpit project Science is Poetry, with legal statement, rationale(s), and a few deployment notes: on Fri, 08 May 2026 07:49:50 GMT]]>@alex27 Please do, that's what it's there for!

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/JulianOliver/statuses/116537857842590676https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/JulianOliver/statuses/116537857842590676Fri, 08 May 2026 07:49:50 GMT