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Anti-AI fonts are useless and harmful (blog.yaros.ae)
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[–] Lumidaub@feddit.org 9 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

I figured it would fuck up accessibility but I strongly disagree with your second point. Obviously any measure against (or for) anything is useless if only a few people do it, that's not an argument against adoption but for finding better ways to promote it.

[–] Nighed@feddit.uk 6 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

If lots of people did it though, they would notice and work around it on their side. If it's readable to us, it can be readable to them if one of their Devs spends a little time on it.

[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 5 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

if one of their Devs spends a little time on it

Or points an LLM at it. The ones with vision capability can just take a screenshot of the text and inspect that to compare it to the characters in the text.

LLMs may not be intelligent, but there's a load of things they can do now, especially if they have access to tools.

[–] acosmichippo@lemmy.world 1 points 21 minutes ago

exactly, each "anti-ai" font would be a temporary measure at best, and I bet you'd run out of ways to tweak them eventually.

[–] Lumidaub@feddit.org 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

"They might do something about it" is just as bad an argument. So what if they find a way? At the very least they'd have to allocate resources to that.

(I'm not advocating for this technology in particular, because of the aforementioned accessibility issues - just speaking in general)

[–] Nighed@feddit.uk 1 points 1 hour ago

I think it's just a lookup table per font? Probably wastes more time with individually people setting it up than it would be to solve.

[–] Armand1@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

I guess my point is for the problems it causes its probably not worth doing, balancing the two?

Making websites that no one needs to visit but poison or trap AI scrappers would likely be a better way to fight back.