{"id":46158,"date":"2026-09-17T16:33:39","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T14:33:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/de\/?p=46158"},"modified":"2026-09-17T16:33:39","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T14:33:39","slug":"a-fly-like-thee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/de\/a-fly-like-thee\/","title":{"rendered":"A Fly Like Thee"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"project":[890,889,451],"project_type":[817,725,731,743],"class_list":["post-46158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","project-ignore-all-previous-instructions","project-calls-2026","project-web-residencies","project_type-web-residencies","project_type-formats","project_type-web-residents","project_type-themes"],"acf":{"bgcolor":"","bgcolor_custom":"","custom_color_css_variable":"","content_type":[{"acf_fc_layout":"content_txt","_acfe_flexible_layout_title":null,"acfe_flexible_layout_title":"Text","bgcolor":"","bgcolor_custom":"","layout_col_size":8,"txt_cols":"is-1-txtcol","txt":"<span class=\"has-font-reckless-light\" style=\"font-family: 'Reckless Regular';\">Every day, bots crawl ordinary websites (online shops, car garages, architecture firms, interactive platforms) and take everything they hold to feed AI models, without any consent or agreement. <em>A Fly Like Thee<\/em> is an open-source plugin that any website can install.<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span class=\"has-font-reckless-light\" style=\"font-family: 'Reckless Regular';\">When a bot arrives (GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot), the plugin recognizes it by its signature and does two things at once. To people, it shows a trompe-l\u2019\u0153il fly landing on the page. To the bot, it writes a hidden quote inside the code itself, four lines by William Blake: \u00bbAm I not \/ A fly like thee? \/ Or art not thou \/ A man like me?\u00ab Serving one page to humans and another to machines is a search-ranking technique known as \u00bbcloaking,\u00ab here turned against its usual purpose.<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span class=\"has-font-reckless-light\" style=\"font-family: 'Reckless Regular';\">The more a page is crawled, the more flies gather on it. A page the bots ignore stays clean; a page they return to fills with flies. They cannot be shooed away, they come back, and they only tell the truth: Something is feeding here. Blake\u2019s four lines, meant only for the machine, count it among the living.<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span class=\"has-font-reckless-light\" style=\"font-family: 'Reckless Regular';\">During the residency, Jonvaux will build and deploy the plugin, and launch a page hosted by Akademie Schloss Solitude keeping a public live log of every visit: which bot, which site, at what time. What is usually taken quietly now has a face and a name.<\/span>"}],"intro_preview_headline":"Olivier Jonvaux, Paris, France","intro_preview_txt":"<span class=\"has-font-maison-neue\" style=\"font-family: 'Maison Neue';\">A fly lands and walks across the screen. It is there because a bot has just crawled the page. <\/span><span class=\"has-font-maison-neue\" style=\"font-family: 'Maison Neue';\">\u00bbA Fly Like Thee\u00ab, a project by Olivier Jonvaux, is a plugin that brings these visits into view. 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