Comment on Open source project fools AI scrapers with poisoned font
DdCno1@beehaw.org 22 hours agoIt’s explained in the article, with examples. Which specific aspect(s) of this explanation do you need help with?
Comment on Open source project fools AI scrapers with poisoned font
DdCno1@beehaw.org 22 hours agoIt’s explained in the article, with examples. Which specific aspect(s) of this explanation do you need help with?
buran@lemmy.today 22 hours ago
Mostly about the glyph substitution.
I get that it takes some combination to replace them to words and make the text incoherent, but I don’t get how it’s configured or how the AI can’t get a coherent text. I would get it if it was OCR, but scrapping?
Manjushri@piefed.social 11 hours ago
Apparently, and I hope someone will correct me if I’m wrong, the AI scrapers gather their data from the page source rather than from what we users see on the screen. The text in the page source when using this font will appear to be gibberish. When the font is applied, the glyph substitution occurring between the source and the browser, the text is transformed into the author’s intended verbiage for the user to read.