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Anti-AI fonts are useless and harmful (blog.yaros.ae)
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[–] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago

I just did. To allow screen readers which is what AI would do if this became a common block it uses this:

" Pressing it sets the reader’s browser to solving a compute-heavy puzzle: JavaScript and a few seconds of processing, more than most mass scrapers are willing to spend."

Which is exactly the method already addressed in the article: " requiring computationally expensive systems to access the content"