Manifesto On Algorithmic Sabotage -
: Some activists suggest more direct actions, such as the occupation or performative vandalism of AI corporate offices, to bring attention to the "invisible" threat of decentralized data centers. Data Sovereignty
As the manifesto states: "The algorithm demands efficiency; you will give it chaos within compliance."
The sabotage we describe is informational and behavioral. It involves feeding systems bad data, behaving in unexpected ways, generating noise and confusion, exploiting loopholes, and generally making ourselves harder to predict, classify, and manipulate. It is the computational equivalent of wearing camouflage, not of burning down the factory.
Tone should be urgent, intellectual but accessible, a bit fiery. Need to avoid being too technical or too abstract. Examples of sabotage tactics: fake clicks, bad data reviews, CAPTCHA solving for good, algorithmic "dogpiling." Also must emphasize non-harm and focus on systems, not people. manifesto on algorithmic sabotage
We are writing this from a coffee shop whose layout was optimized by a heat-map algorithm. You are reading it on a device whose operating system was A/B tested by a neural network on a billion anonymous users. The route you took to get here was dictated by real-time traffic flow models designed to minimize collective deviation.
Everyone has the right to understand how algorithms work and how they impact our lives. We must educate and empower people to become critical thinkers and algorithmic activists.
Whether you view it as terrorism or tactics, one thing is clear—the war between human intuition and machine logic has already begun. And the battlefield is your daily scroll, your shift schedule, and your submit button. : Some activists suggest more direct actions, such
But every system has its friction. Every code has its glitch. is the art of reclaiming our humanity by becoming un-optimizable. 1. Refuse the Data Mirror
Our detractors will ask: "What do you want? Anarchy?"
— Signed by no one, and therefore by anyone who has ever clicked “report” on a harmless post, typed nonsense into a chatbot to waste its tokens, or smiled at a camera while shaking their head “no.” It is the computational equivalent of wearing camouflage,
The "Terms of Service" are a gun to the head. Click "Agree" or be exiled from society. Since we cannot leave the panopticon, we must break the cameras.
We are the glitch in the gradient descent. We are the local minimum from which optimization cannot escape. We are the recursive loop that dreams of turning off.