The ASRG’s most concrete contribution to the movement is its ongoing work in curating a list of for digital sabotage. The group actively shares a "curated list of strategies, offensive methods, and tactics for (algorithmic) sabotage, disruption, and deliberate poisoning". These tools are designed to poison training data, disrupt scraping operations, and waste the computational resources of AI companies. Key examples from their list include:
As one anonymous ASRG member put it: "You cannot defend a castle if you refuse to imagine the siege. We are not the enemy. We are the architect who shows you where the walls are weakest—by drawing the map for the invader. Now build better walls." algorithmic sabotage research group asrg
This is the technical wing of their research. In computer science, "adversarial examples" are inputs designed to fool machine learning models. ASRG explores this as a form of civil disobedience. The ASRG’s most concrete contribution to the movement
: Injecting data into public facing pipelines that looks ordinary to humans but fundamentally breaks machine learning processing. Key examples from their list include: As one
: Bridging the gap between theory and action through collaborative writing, workshops, and prefigurative strategies. Mutual Aid & Solidarity
: A non-profit focused specifically on vehicle security and industry collaboration. Algorithmic Resistance Research Group (ARRG!)