A new way to fuck with AI scrapers just dropped!

Aaaaaand its fucking with screen readers, making protected text inaccessible to blind readers. File this next to the alt-text drama in the “AI bros set back accessibility” bucket.

(from the youtube comments)

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One of the lesser discussed issues with the generative AI hype is that it put every single deep learning application under scrutiny. They tend to hide behind the positive uses of deep learning whenever generative AI is criticized, as if medicine research and the misinformation generator cannot be separated. “Nuclear power is impossible unless we are allowed to use nukes” type of argument

chaser:

Alphafold was a really interest project. It was not magic but had some utility. Now all remaining AI projects are lying plagiarism machines.

AI is officially a pseudoscience now.

LLM bros actively force themselves everywhere, part infinity:

Newgrounds moderation had to deal with someone (probably a scammer) posting slop “art advice” recently - exactly why, nobody fuckin’ knows:

A lot of annoying people in technical areas view the world in terms of an intelligence hierarchy: the smartest people do math and physics, the slightly less smart people do coding, and the dumb people do everything else. So if AI can do math then it can do anything else. But, as an example, it is abundantly obvious now that AI is not replacing filmmaking.

Going by those annoying peoples’ logic, filmmakers are smarter than coders, because LLMs can (allegedly) program, but they can’t make a good film. I have no wider point to this, I just find this really, really funny

I tested this with the Navy Seal Copypasta (well, the first 400 letters of it, the demo’s got a limit) - using just Cryllic characters got me a 3.01x increase, and turning on all four control types got a 4.53x increase.

Testing your own recent comment, Cryllic only got 3.38x, and all four controls got 5.11x.

Going from those two, the boost from homoglyphs alone is likely higher than you think - 3x to 3.5x, by my guess - pretty good for human readable text.

Tarpits like Iocaine and Nepenthes can easily sacrifice readability for token burn, so they can easily go higher.

Adversarial tokenmaxxing could probably be done by using non-English character sets in lieu of English letters (e.g. faux Cryllic) - for two examples from the Greek alphabet, alpha and omicron alone can easily substitute for A and O, respectively.

As a bonus, this would likely make the text look like complete gibberish to LLMs, potentially leaving them unable to process the document altogether. This would probably shaft anyone using screen readers, though.

EDIT: Turns out the demonstration’s already caught on to this idea, didn’t notice beforehand:

The Butlerian Jihad grows closer and closer by the day. Maybe its already arrived.

Oh, boy, Rapist Glasses

There’s a UK Parliament petition to “Introduce an immediate ban on the sale and promotion of smart glasses”. If you’re in the UK, you might want to sign it. [UK Parliament]

Given Parliament’s track record, they’ll probably respond by banning glasses that don’t have cameras, but I still endorse this

Another “AI fucked compsci grads” post has hit my eyeballs - this time, it got recommended to me by LinkedIn’s algorithm) (because I’m still on that site for some fucking reason):

This one’s attributing the decline to “unique human judgment, logic, and ethical reasoning becoming premium assets”, and her graph comes from The Economist’s Instagram page AFAICT. That one of the Economist’s sources is Anthropic is giving me some hope this is bullshit, but its not much.

The main thing I knew him for is his failed attempt to hijack the Hugo Awards back in 2015.

(There’s a r/HobbyDrama post about the whole debacle, which I recommend checking out)

“Okay, so it starts with a doomsday cult which formed around GameStop…”

Your qualifications predate the LLM rot by fucking ages, and your position against them is crystal clear. Given both of those, bypassing that filter should be easy enough.

new hires who were seen as “AI natives” are turning out to have alarmingly shallow ideas. So much so, the anonymous finance worker admitted, that his firm now actively avoids seeking out AI-literate STEM graduates, and opts to comb through humanities students instead.

So not only are STEM graduates (mainly compsci grads) struggling to get jobs as it is, employers are explicitly passing them over for “”“useless”“” humanities degrees instead. I’m not sure whether to laugh at the irony of the situation, or crash out at the fact my own compsci/cybersec degrees may have become a liability.

Wednesday’s presentation for 2026 mostly hammers on Son’s love of AI. Son said: [Reuters]

I think it’s blasphemy against AI if ‌you say it’s a bubble.

[THIS IS WHAT AI CULTISTS ACTUALLY BELIEVE]

Also, “The Goose that Laid the Golden Eggs” is a cautionary fable about greed being bad.

Knowing that would require techbros to actually read, so I’m not shocked

Honestly, a black comedy about the rats and/or the AI bubble would probably make bank. The years of sneers people have cooked up on them would provide plenty of material for the writers, and there’d be plenty of catharsis in seeing those responsible get ripped into for 2-ish hours straight.

We got a major engine slopifying itself before GTA VI

I’m pretty sure 2027 will be hilarious for Unreal Engine with AI. And expensive.

With how much market share Unreal also has, it’ll probably cause some major shockwaves in the video game industry as well.

In the meantime, start learning the Godot engine. Which doesn’t accept AI code. [Godot]

Godot also released a new version yesterday, so there’s another reason to check it out

Forgot to mention this for a bit, but I watched the Backrooms movie in the cinema 4 days ago.

It is an incredible film and I never want to see it again, Jesus it got under my skin

I checked Wikipedia’s history, its been fucked since last year

J-R Conlin has left Mozilla after 15 years, and has some choice words for the company.