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Re: Adaptive PDFs

#41

I'd be more interested in the contrary. A PDF that ensures it's only readable by humans. I guess the exact same technique can actually be used.

Why would you use the exact same technique? Remove all fonts and all text from the PDF and render everything as vector graphics. It’s an old trick to prevent people from extracting paid commercial fonts from your PDF.

And of course, OCR doesn’t work here just like it doesn’t work for the original use case.

Re: Adaptive PDFs

#45

Just because everything is a potential threat vector now: doesn't this also mean you could easily put AI specific malicious instructions into the PDF that the regular human would never notice? Like the "white text between the lines that only appears when copy-pasted"-hack that some professors have been doing in their exercises to their students to include pink elephants in the output and stuff. But worse. Just thinki…

> Just because everything is a potential threat vector now

Sweet Summer child... it always was the case. There is no "now" just because there are new tools.

Re: Adaptive PDFs

#46

why do most of the paragraphs in this post stop mid-sentence? why are there 3 dozen comments and nobody has mentioned this? any humans still here?

The majority of people only skim content before making a post.

The truncated paragraphs are very odd - definitely a mistake.

Re: Adaptive PDFs

#50

why do most of the paragraphs in this post stop mid-sentence? why are there 3 dozen comments and nobody has mentioned this? any humans still here?

Yeah it's quite strange. I was tapping trying to expand it. Tried landscape but it truncates at the same point (Firefox android).
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