Algorithmic Sabotage Research Group Asrg
The Aesthetics of Resistance: Inside the Algorithmic Sabotage Research Group (ASRG)
A. Adversarial Examples and Poisoning
- Consent: If a corporation scrapes 5 billion images without consent, they are already committing mass copyright infringement. Sabotage is proportional self-defense.
- The Labor Weapon: Art is labor. If an AI model cannot reliably produce "hands" or "eyes" because of ASRG poisons, the model becomes useless for commercial art, protecting human jobs.
- Anti-Monopoly: By breaking open-weight models (Stable Diffusion), they argue they are forcing corporations to rely on closed, expensive models (Midjourney, DALL-E), which naturally reduces the total amount of AI art generated due to cost barriers.
In a world where algorithms decide who gets a loan, what news you read, and even which military targets are engaged, a quiet but radical resistance is brewing. Enter the Algorithmic Sabotage Research Group (ASRG) algorithmic sabotage research group asrg