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gs17today at 6:15 PM1 replyview on HN

It only works while it's rare. If it was more common, scrapers would switch to OCR or simply reverse the font so they can decode the ligatures.

Their own whitepaper brings up a bigger issue: if it works, it poisons search engines as well.


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Vareliontoday at 6:32 PM

OCR is a more expensive option, right? I don't think these fonts need to stop ai from being trained; I think they just need to make it more expensive and difficult.

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