Slopinator: Attack AI training with poisoned GitHub repositories
Slopinator is a tool designed to disrupt AI model training by uploading poisoned code repositories to GitHub. It exploits GitHub's role as a primary source of training data for AI labs, including those owned by Microsoft. Users are warned that utilizing this tool violates GitHub's Terms of Service and should proceed with caution.
- ▪Slopinator allows users to create and upload repositories filled with poisoned code to GitHub.
- ▪The tool requires users to connect via a VPN and use throwaway accounts to avoid detection.
- ▪It automates the process of account creation and repository generation to facilitate the upload of malicious content.
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| Original publisher | Codeberg.org |
| Canonical URL | https://codeberg.org/the-slopinator/slopinator |
| Publication time | Tue, 19 May 2026 16:32:41 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-05-19T16:39:57.869Z |
| Last seen | 2026-05-19T16:39:57.869Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | pGdpW4_m5kzr |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
Rights status (four layers)
WeSearch handling by dimension
| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
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Slopinator 🤖 💥🔫 Destroy the next generation of AI models by uploading poisoned code repositories to GitHub. Why? GitHub is extensively used as a training data source by AI labs. Microsoft, which owns GitHub, even trains on private repositories. By creating legitimate-looking repositories filled with poisoned code, Slopinator aims to destroy the next generation of models and make GitHub an unsafe place for labs to obtain training data. Warning Using this tool is a violation of GitHub's Terms of Service. Please ONLY use with throwaway accounts, while connected to a VPN, and in an incognito browser session. Proceed at your own risk.
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Excerpt limited to ~120 words for fair-use compliance. The full article is at Codeberg.org.