<![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:

https://julianoliver.com/projects/science-is-poetry/

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

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/topic/6ca061e6-4162-4430-9ad9-86e01e350e23/pleased-to-share-a-page-and-explainer-for-the-ai-tarpit-project-science-is-poetry-with-legal-statement-rationale-s-and-a-few-deployment-notesRSS for NodeThu, 30 Apr 2026 15:22:54 GMTSun, 12 Apr 2026 10:34:15 GMT60<![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 Sat, 18 Apr 2026 07:18:05 GMT]]>@dch I would think they would still try the bare/apex domain and "www".
@JulianOliver

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/users/pertho/statuses/116424486810837348https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/users/pertho/statuses/116424486810837348Sat, 18 Apr 2026 07:18:05 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 Sat, 18 Apr 2026 07:13:14 GMT]]>@pertho @JulianOliver a way around this is to use both DNS and TLS wildcard support - there is no single domain list in the report that can be slopped.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://bsd.network/users/dch/statuses/116424467708931107https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://bsd.network/users/dch/statuses/116424467708931107Sat, 18 Apr 2026 07:13:14 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 Sat, 18 Apr 2026 07:11:22 GMT]]>@vortex @futuresprog Thanks a lot Adam! Please let me know when you're done. By DM is also fine too.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/JulianOliver/statuses/116424460347268734https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/JulianOliver/statuses/116424460347268734Sat, 18 Apr 2026 07:11:22 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 Sat, 18 Apr 2026 07:09:19 GMT]]>@JulianOliver @futuresprog ah, cool to know, thanks. can config a few from this ...

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://tldr.nettime.org/users/vortex/statuses/116424452286678502https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://tldr.nettime.org/users/vortex/statuses/116424452286678502Sat, 18 Apr 2026 07:09:19 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 Sat, 18 Apr 2026 07:05:34 GMT]]>@JulianOliver heya. How do I donate and configure domains for your experiment? Do they come with any restrictions, i.e. must the FQDNs be in distinct DNS zones, etc? Can easily spin up and configure a few to begin with e.g.

poetry.zenr.io
worst.case.zenr.io
wurst.case.zenr.io
et.c.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://tldr.nettime.org/users/vortex/statuses/116424437539299005https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://tldr.nettime.org/users/vortex/statuses/116424437539299005Sat, 18 Apr 2026 07:05:34 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 Sat, 18 Apr 2026 07:02:48 GMT]]>@pertho Very interesting! I will look into this closely. Thank you.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/JulianOliver/statuses/116424426682393236https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/JulianOliver/statuses/116424426682393236Sat, 18 Apr 2026 07:02:48 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 Sat, 18 Apr 2026 06:59:43 GMT]]>@JulianOliver I think scraper bots and other parasites constantly scan TLS transparency reports to find new domains to probe. As soon as you have a new certificate, they start hitting your web server.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/users/pertho/statuses/116424414567957605https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/users/pertho/statuses/116424414567957605Sat, 18 Apr 2026 06:59:43 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 Sat, 18 Apr 2026 05:57:21 GMT]]>@JulianOliver this is the coolest thing I've seen all year, thank you for sharing and making this

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/lzrd/statuses/116424169350606082https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/lzrd/statuses/116424169350606082Sat, 18 Apr 2026 05:57:21 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 Sat, 18 Apr 2026 05:45:55 GMT]]>I've started to harvest a list of AI crawler endpoint addrs for your blacklisting pleasure.

I'll try to keep it updated. I've been fastidious with ensuring I'm only pulling those related to the known user agent, so as not to have any false positives

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

It is at the same path for all contributed domains.

For instance:

https://carrot.mro1.de/files/parasites.txt

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/JulianOliver/statuses/116424124397637057https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/JulianOliver/statuses/116424124397637057Sat, 18 Apr 2026 05:45:55 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 Sat, 18 Apr 2026 02:50:20 GMT]]>I have only linked them here and on the landing page, and already it's gone nuts.

These are *solely* the new domains you've donated, all in one log. These do not pertain to the project domain.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/JulianOliver/statuses/116423433929050624https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/JulianOliver/statuses/116423433929050624Sat, 18 Apr 2026 02:50:20 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 Sat, 18 Apr 2026 02:27:08 GMT]]>Thanks for all the domain donations, a beautiful thing!

Listed on the landing page:

https://scienceispoetry.net

And copied into this post:

https://carrot.mro1.de
https://car.rot.mro1.de
https://ca.rr.ot.mro1.de
https://sygrovelaw.co.nz
https://wholesaletechnology.co.nz
https://goldenageproductions.co.nz
https://kginno.eu
https://outgoing.nz
https://unbreak.nz
https://poetry.rainskit.com
https://poetry.narthur.com
https://madhattercorp.com
https://sustainable-collective.org
https://sustainable-collective.de
https://c0-cloud.de

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/JulianOliver/statuses/116423342744944078https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/JulianOliver/statuses/116423342744944078Sat, 18 Apr 2026 02:27:08 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 Sat, 18 Apr 2026 01:45:51 GMT]]>@monochrome @narthur

I am looking to populate the tarpit to other hosts, but for now the bots just keep chewing, and have been for days at one end-point.

I suspect there are so many crawlers spawned, and that they have so much in the way of resources at hand to do this scraping, that it is largely automated with little oversight.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/JulianOliver/statuses/116423180414582112https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/JulianOliver/statuses/116423180414582112Sat, 18 Apr 2026 01:45:51 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 Sat, 18 Apr 2026 01:40:16 GMT]]>@korkeala Thank you! Please share via DM so I can add it to the list.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/JulianOliver/statuses/116423158441260880https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/JulianOliver/statuses/116423158441260880Sat, 18 Apr 2026 01:40:16 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, 17 Apr 2026 15:42:12 GMT]]>@JulianOliver sign me up

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://glasgow.social/users/perhammer/statuses/116420806720368513https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://glasgow.social/users/perhammer/statuses/116420806720368513Fri, 17 Apr 2026 15:42:12 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, 17 Apr 2026 11:55:37 GMT]]>@mro Amazing, thank you! I'll have an update tomorrow once all setup.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/JulianOliver/statuses/116419915757982953https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/JulianOliver/statuses/116419915757982953Fri, 17 Apr 2026 11:55:37 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, 17 Apr 2026 10:33:39 GMT]]>Hi @JulianOliver,
carrot.mro1.de and
car.rot.mro1.de and
ca.rr.ot.mro1.de

The pleasure is all mine.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://digitalcourage.social/users/mro/statuses/116419593441464218https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://digitalcourage.social/users/mro/statuses/116419593441464218Fri, 17 Apr 2026 10:33:39 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, 17 Apr 2026 09:21:53 GMT]]>@JulianOliver also ❤ the web design. gotta serve the bots something nice.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://tldr.nettime.org/users/mediengruppe_bitnik/statuses/116419311254867858https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://tldr.nettime.org/users/mediengruppe_bitnik/statuses/116419311254867858Fri, 17 Apr 2026 09:21:53 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, 17 Apr 2026 08:50:02 GMT]]>Thanks all for the fine domains! I've decided to spin up a new VM and do all the site configs and TLS chain for them at once - more efficient, less prone to error. I will get onto that on my tomorrow and report back here.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/JulianOliver/statuses/116419186043015787https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/JulianOliver/statuses/116419186043015787Fri, 17 Apr 2026 08:50:02 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, 17 Apr 2026 07:45:56 GMT]]>@JulianOliver I set one .fi domain for this which was unused I was supposed to delete it already.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://hachyderm.io/users/korkeala/statuses/116418933996252850https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://hachyderm.io/users/korkeala/statuses/116418933996252850Fri, 17 Apr 2026 07:45:56 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, 17 Apr 2026 07:41:07 GMT]]>@JulianOliver will send you a send you a DM when ready.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/themadhatter/statuses/116418915014068732https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/themadhatter/statuses/116418915014068732Fri, 17 Apr 2026 07:41:07 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, 17 Apr 2026 07:37:41 GMT]]>@themadhatter Thank you! Yes knowing the domains would be needed. If you don't want the world to know they are yours, you can DM.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/JulianOliver/statuses/116418901539742716https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/JulianOliver/statuses/116418901539742716Fri, 17 Apr 2026 07:37:41 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, 17 Apr 2026 07:35:38 GMT]]>@JulianOliver i have some unused. I'll let them point at A/AAAA you already mentioned. Do you need to know the exact domains?

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/themadhatter/statuses/116418893506304968https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/themadhatter/statuses/116418893506304968Fri, 17 Apr 2026 07:35:38 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, 17 Apr 2026 07:32:29 GMT]]>@JulianOliver @narthur It seems to me that it would be fairly easy for them to consider that the content is junk and to treat accordingly everything coming from the same IPs. They probably keep a log of where the content used to train the LLMs is coming from (maybe with some kind of hash / pseudonymous maneer), and likely have ways to reject content from the same server IF they detect a problem from several domains linked to this server. IMO a bunch of reverse proxies / various IPs could help : they might be dumb and make it easy to polute their dataset, but probably aren't.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://social.critica.li/users/monochrome/statuses/01KPD5P0VJGJZ9ARY03BRA34Q8https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://social.critica.li/users/monochrome/statuses/01KPD5P0VJGJZ9ARY03BRA34Q8Fri, 17 Apr 2026 07:32:29 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, 17 Apr 2026 07:02:19 GMT]]>@mro

How about 'carrot'?

A: 95.216.76.85
AAAA: 2a01:4f9:2b:c83::2

Thanks a lot!

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/JulianOliver/statuses/116418762441850350https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/JulianOliver/statuses/116418762441850350Fri, 17 Apr 2026 07:02:19 GMT