On 4/30/25 23:42, Bruce Horrocks wrote:
[...] If we're going to spend effort to counter AI crawlers then I think I would prefer to have an option to poison files.
Many thanks for your reply, Bruce. I’m afraid that accessibility (an excellent goal in itself) is also the perfect excuse to convert everything digital into AI forage (whether we like it or not). Sorry if I’m missing your point, but I cannot see how to poison content for AI while leaving them accessible for people with impairments. As British citizen, you may be exempt to comply, but the Accessibility Directive is law in the EU.
Recently, YouTuber F4mi, who creates some excellent deep dives on obscure technology, detailed her efforts "to poison any AI summarisers that were trying to steal my content to make slop." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEDFUjqA1s8.
Many thanks for the reference.
Perhaps ConTeXt could introduce something similar where invisible pages or invisible layers of nonsense are auto-generated but can't be seen on screen or when a document is printed? There is something similar (Hans already mentioned it):
\enabledirectives[backend.pdf.nounicode=] You could add any text you want as value. Cheers, Pablo