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📅 08 November 2026 at 06:30 PM UTC
Ask HN: LLM-Resistant Publishing Strategies
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As has been discussed at length, LLM companies carried out the most egregious theft of labor [0] and intellectual property [1] in human history. I am one among the many (artists, musicians, writers, developers), who continue to be appaled at tech billionaires profiting from this [2]. As such, I have mostly ceased publishing original content online, while I wait for effective defenses to emerge. The two industry-standards are `robots.txt` and captchas. Neither works: the former is simply ignored, even by industry heavyweights [3]; the latter is trivial to bypass (using AI itself [4], remote solving services [5], or anti-detect browsers/impersonators [6] + residential proxies [7]). Emerging strategies include special fonts for creating OCR-resistant documents, tho current options don't seem
Publication Reference: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50411036
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