I came across tools like nightshade that can poison images. That way, if someone steals an artist's work to train their AI, it learns the wrong stuff and can potentially begin spewing gibberish.

Is there something that I can use on PDFs? There are two scenarios for me:

Content that I already created that is available as a pdf.
I use LaTeX to make new documents and I want to poison those from scratch if possible rather than an ad hoc step once the PDF is created.

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[–] underscores@lemmy.dbzer0.com 65 points 3 days ago (1 children)

A lot of the ways they scrape documents are the same used by accessibility tools, so I'd generally recommend against doing this.

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago (2 children)

So a layer of transparent text wouldn't work?

[–] underscores@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I'm pretty sure most screen readers and stuff like copy/paste would also get whatever nonsense you filled it with.

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

It would be a side effect, most likely.

[–] Maroon@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I'm sorry, but "transparent text"? Is this done in LaTeX?

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

What, you can't set the alpha channel on your text in a pdf?

[–] Maroon@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I think I didn't explain myself clearly, sorry. I meant that in LaTeX, I can make my text transparent /white and have them overlap for a couple of paragraphs by adjusting text boxes. I'm not sure if how scalable this solution is for me.

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

There are other ways of making pdf files, so it all depends on what you want.