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Anti-AI fonts are useless and harmful
blog.yaros.ae/anti-ai-fonts-are-useless-and-harmful/
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’m not unsympathetic to accessibility issues, but at the same time it’s REALLY suspicious how much internet randos (especially on Bluesky) suddenly started being really militant about alt-tagging at EXACTLY the same time as the tech billionaires started needing tagged images to train their clankers.
There was a deadline in March for all federally funded institutions to follow accessibility guidelines. Not sure if that’s had an effect on stuff outside of their scope, but it does align with the timing.
The deadline was extended to next March at the very last moment.