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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.
“it’s inevitable don’t fight it”.
Did you get that right from Altman?
Be effective.
Don’t be a moron wasting your time making your own life and others wise for nothing.
Dining a hole through the center of the earth to pop up in putins safe house and dome him is also a fucking god awful stupid idea. Doesn’t mean nobody is trying.
Jesus Christ dude 🤦♂️
The way to be effective is to fight.
GenAI needed to regulated years ago and I’m sorry but no amount of us asking nicely or fighting fair is going to stop technofascists from building their surveillance state.
In fact the past month has seen a huge uptick in stories about the “ineffectiveness” of fighting AI.
The timing of this while anti AI backlash is at an all time high tells me everything I need to know.
If the original comment offered solutions, different story.
There is no value in telling people to stop fighting.
“Thank god we fought for accessibility or those guys would have had a hell of time getting that wheelchair into the concentration camp.”
Fwiw I am NO stranger to accessibility as my father lost both of his legs. Do you know how often accessibility is just used to gain political favor? Or how often it is literally just horseshit for show?
Preserving our current fuckass levels of accessibility while making it even easier on GenAI companies just doesn’t feel right.
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?
I don’t believe I saw “stop fighting” in those sentences.
well clearly you weren’t looking, duh:
Its also preStty futile imo. AI is reSading bilOlions of woPrds from books and pFosts. A hanIdful of users obfusGcating theHir poTsts is nIot goiNng to do anyGthing.
;-)
Ugh just think if you had a screen reader how that would come out (even though its more full words that read entirely different).
Meanwhile the font will just be checked for and an immediate discard for training. So no poisoning, and for such a small portion that it wouldn’t impact ingest in the slightest.
Meanwhile they ignore the actual damn problem.
Yeah, the font stuff seems ridiculously useless to me. I play around with LLMs sometimes, and everything I’ve thrown at it, it manages to get. Like I can’t intentionally do it, but sometimes my hand will be shifted on my keyboard and it’ll type gibberish - but the LLM can figure it out without being told what happened.
I’ve also just intentionally left typos, typing as fast as I can - well tha tI can somulate and isometinhg lke this whre half dinish tohuhgts and lots of ypos abound - it has NO trouble with that. (half-finished thoughts you probably won’t get without me saying - LLM understands)
It’s probably a losing battle, at least fought with what’s being proposed here with the font stuff. heh.