According to the manifesto and associated neo-luddite movements, resistance can take several forms: Silence and Unreadability
Recently, a fringe but growing document has been circulating in tech ethics forums and warehouse break rooms: The Manifesto on Algorithmic Sabotage . It is not a call to smash servers. It is a tactical guide to exploiting the very logic that seeks to exploit you.
We declare war on optimization.
AI hates ambiguity. Humans thrive on it.
The is a militant, practice-led research project published by the Algorithmic Sabotage Research Group (ASRG) . It is designed to move beyond theoretical critique of technology and toward active resistance against what it calls the "algorithmic empire".
Tactical categories (non-exhaustive)
We have tried: