lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 13/08/2026oh that's lots of fun, i like that a lotArs Technica@arstechnica.comarstechnica.comNew font turns ordinary webpages into nonsense for AI scrapers“ShieldFont” aims to poison AI training data without making pages unreadable for people. 876091
Boxo McFoxo @boxobark.ing · 13/08/2026No, it's not a great idea. It sacrifices accessibility, and it will easily be reverted when datasets are cleaned. I suspect the idea itself came out of a "conversation" with Claude. 1180
Boxo McFoxo @boxobark.ing · 13/08/2026The idea that the big LLMs are trained on a hosepipe of raw Internet text was true at one time but is now a myth. It's actually a myth that fits an industry fairytale: an emergent understanding of language through raw scale of data, which is then shaped with RLHF. 180
