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Anti-AI fonts are useless and harmful (blog.yaros.ae)
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[–] curbstickle@anarchist.nexus 5 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

There is no value in telling people to stop fighting.

Let's see what was written.

TLDR; It fucks up accessibility for blind people (amongst others).

Its also pretty futile imo. AI is reading billions of words from books and posts. A handful of users obfuscating their posts is not going to do anything.

I don't believe I saw "stop fighting" in those sentences.

I did see "this fucks things up for many people, and this has little to no impact on ai scraping."

You have a very different interpretation of those sentences from me. I'd also point out the root of the issue has nothing to do with llm's, and everything to do with capitalism.

Maybe try fighting the cause of the problem rather than the most recent means of exploitation?

[–] sem@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 hour ago (2 children)

This is the part implying that there is nothing worth doing:

A handful of users obfuscating their posts is not going to do anything.

[–] acosmichippo@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (1 children)

no, that says this specific thing is not worth doing.

[–] sem@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 hour ago

Have you heard of implication? Here are two definitions of "imply", from https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/imply:

transitive verb

1

: to express indirectly

Her remarks implied a threat.

The news report seems to imply his death was not an accident.

2

: to involve or indicate by inference, association, or necessary consequence rather than by direct statement

rights imply obligations

[–] Toga77@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Thank you.

Reading truly is fundamental.

[–] curbstickle@anarchist.nexus 1 points 1 hour ago

Please explain how "this isn't effective, but does negatively impact regular people" is the same as "don't fight back".

I'd love to hear this explanation. Please. Enlighten me.

[–] Toga77@lemmy.world 0 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

The cause of the problem is being bolstered by the companies that make gen AI my dude. They're all the in the same trench coat, and they also make the accessibility laws.

I hate to tell you this but America has been captured by corporations for decades. Fuck them, and fuck anyone who dares to tell me stop fighting.

This screams astro turfing campaign against users fighting, and I'm not buying it.

[–] curbstickle@anarchist.nexus 3 points 1 hour ago

The cause of the problem is ~~being bolstered by~~ the companies ~~that make gen AI~~

Whether its gen ai or something else, the root cause is the same.

You are suggesting something that breaks things for a good number of people and has little to no impact on a specific subset of a specific type of company is the only way to fight back.

That is nonsense.