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Anti-AI fonts are useless and harmful

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Re: Anti-AI fonts are useless and harmful

#132
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It's simply that a font won't solve anything. That concept is worst than security by obscurity, as it causes more problem and add more constraints than what it solves... for a very limited time until AI bots are adjusted to decode those fonts properly.

how can you make such a bold claim so early with 0 evidence? A successful (and much more realistic outcome) could be to make a font that is financially infeasible for LLMs to parse but easy for humans.

Yeah, that worked really well for captchas. Now even simple models far surpass humans at recognition.

So there’s plenty of evidence.

Now provide evidence it’s technically possible to make any font “ that is financially infeasible for LLMs to parse but easy for humans.”

Re: Anti-AI fonts are useless and harmful

#133

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Accessibility isn't optional, so what do you propose?

I propose using the internet the way it was designed: Open and readable by everything (including bots). Scraping is a legal issue. There is no technical prevention mechanism that isn't theater.

> Scraping is a legal issue.

The problem is... it's a legal issue we cannot solve. America and China are large enough to not give a fuck about what everyone else wants.

Re: Anti-AI fonts are useless and harmful

#134
So a rounding error of nerds, who themselves are a rounding error, will invest a lot of effort and trouble to use tech that makes their and their user's lives harder, and probably won't even work, to hide text that LLM big tech couldn't care less about anyway.

Cool.

Re: Anti-AI fonts are useless and harmful

#137
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Qualitative assessment etc not just metrics. How do you propose to asses “overall benefit to humanity” with metrics?

Number of successful outcomes reported (e.g. with disabled students, cancer patients). Labor costs. Latency of services. Scientific discoveries found. Etc. I'm not trying to discount the qualitative approach, but I think it's not impossibly hard to find metrics we can associate with "overall benefit to humanity" from a quantitative viewpoint.

> I think it's not impossibly hard to find metrics we can associate with "overall benefit to humanity" from a quantitative viewpoint.

One would hope for the slightly higher ambition of metrics that are causally connected to "overall benefit of humanity", settling for merely correlated has that unpleasant risk of the association breaking as you try to optimise.

Re: Anti-AI fonts are useless and harmful

#138

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Is this bait? Wtf haha

If the comment baited you, maybe it's because you're holding onto a popular but nonsensical belief system, and you're experiencing painful cognitive dissonance.

Are you intentionally being rude, or is this just how HN raised you to think?

Re: Anti-AI fonts are useless and harmful

#139
My agents act on my behalf, if you make it difficult for them I (or they) will get their info elsewhere. Will this split the internet? How long is this feasible? How long until any agent can work around any barrier, just at the expense of more energy?

Re: Anti-AI fonts are useless and harmful

#140

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If the comment baited you, maybe it's because you're holding onto a popular but nonsensical belief system, and you're experiencing painful cognitive dissonance.

Are you intentionally being rude, or is this just how HN raised you to think?

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