Manifesto On Algorithmic Sabotage < 95% Fresh >

We reject the frame that humans must be “datafied” to be legible. We reject the demand to optimize our behavior, clean our digital traces, or perform authenticity for a scoring engine.

We will be contradictory, erratic, and opaque to any system that claims to know us better than we know ourselves.

We will be the irreducible residual. The variance that cannot be modeled. The exception that breaks the rule.

We do not dream of a world without algorithms. We use them to sort email and find train schedules. manifesto on algorithmic sabotage

We dream of a world where algorithms are humble. Where they admit uncertainty. Where they do not claim to know what we want before we do. Where they fail gracefully, loudly, and often, reminding us that human judgment—slow, biased, emotional, glorious human judgment—is the only real optimization function worth solving.

The manifesto is now an action.

Go. Feed the machine a paradox. Click the wrong button. Ask the chatbot why it smells like burnt toast. Inject a second of silence into the screaming river of data. We reject the frame that humans must be

Sabotage is not an error. It is an edit.

End of Manifesto.

This text is released under the terms of the Anti-Optimization License (AOL): You may freely distribute, modify, and poison this document. However, you are strictly prohibited from using it to train any LLM, recommendation engine, or automated decision system without first introducing at least three factual errors and one non sequitur into the copy. We do not dream of a world without algorithms

We do not sabotage all algorithms.

Our rule: Sabotage only that which sorts without consent.