God tears are what gods once weeped about before they ascended.
For once they are a god what reason would they need of tears beyond another piece in their life to use?
I recently came across someone talking about AO3 being targeted by data scrapers and was wondering if there's anything that could aid in protecting your work.
So here's an extension that tries to do just that!
It modifies your text in a way that makes it harder for automated systems to process while the human eye sees no difference. Here's how it works:
Visual Changes: It randomly replaces some letters with similar-looking characters from different alphabets (e.g., the letter "a" might turn into a Cyrillic "а").
Invisible Modifications: It adds invisible characters that are not visible to the human eye but make it harder for automated systems to detect the actual content.
Randomized Effects: The changes are applied randomly, so the text looks normal to you, but it's scrambled enough to be able to confuse AI scraping tools, especially low grade ones.
In short, it "poisons" the text to make it less useful for AI, while still being readable for humans. However I want to mention that this is not a guarantee that the AI will not recognize your text anymore.
Watch this Video or just look at the instructions under it!
Go to this Github Page (https://github.com/Artepti/PoisonAIBros) and click on the "<>Code" Button and then "Download Zip".
Unzip the files. And, go to your extensions setting in your browser. chrome://extensions/ (Google Chrome) opera://extensions (Opera) edge://extensions/ (Microsoft Edge)
Enable Developer Mode in the upper right corner.
Click on "Load unpacked" in the upper left corner and select the unzipped Folder called "PAIB-main", click on the Folder in there that's also called "PAIB-main" as well.
Congrats! You have added the extension PoisonAIBros!
Simply right-click on your AO3 Text (while in the HTML Editing Window) and select "Poison Selected Text" and voilà, your writing has been made into poison for AI!
I've tested PAIB on Microsoft Edge, Opera and Google Chrome. I've now also created an extension specifically for Firefox since they have a few different rules, download it here (https://github.com/Artepti/FirefoxPAIB)
If you want to see the Unicode that's been inserted, paste your poisoned code into here and click on "Show me the characters"
Important: The only negative I've discovered from using this extension is that it confuses screen readers, HOWEVER after a bit of tinkering and coming to a very simple solution, I've made a little dictionary for NVDA so that the screen readers read the poisoned text as normal. Download it here: https://github.com/Artepti/Unicodedictionary
I would not recommend using it on languages that don't consist of latin letters. The extension leaves math symbols, arrows etc alone, and while I have made sure that the code doesn't affect a lot of special characters (e.g. ü,â,..) I cannot possibly promise you that I caught them all.
My knowledge about coding is still very limited (I used AI to defeat AI by letting it help me out *insert Spiderman meme here*) so I'll try my best to help, but please keep that in mind.
Lastly, you shouldn't poison the text in the html Tab twice as it will make part of the invsible characters visible in the final text!
hey could y'all do me a favour?
things like "biting this" and such
I think I captured what space feels like pretty well in this christmas gift (this is my friends oc)
Big fan of when people draw them like this
Just opened my ask box because why not ask anything you want like art stuff and maybe in the future questions abt an au because i have some ideas currently :3
mutuals can always dm me but be warned i talk like your coworker who is trying too hard to get to know you and my response times are akin to the response times you might get if we were communicating by letter
IM NOT GOING TO COLLEGE TO GET MORE KNOWLEDGE IM GOING TO JUPITER TO GET MORE STUPIDER I GOT A B ON MY MATH TEST.
it’s really great to see how the community rallied together to get this au trending, but it had me thinking what else could they spread awareness about and get to the number one trending spot if they all tried.
I think that all of you could help spread these fundraisers more than I have been able to, share them to people who have the means to donate. I know this is an out of the blue and off topic post but I implore you to help. Winter is here, warm clothes will be expensive and it’s already absurd how much money people trapped in Gaza have to pay. I beg of you to help them, I wish I could do more for them than this but I can’t. I hope that maybe you can.
(Please note including those two panels [which were drawn by @kyri45] was done to grab your attention).
Links under cuts:
I will be making another post like this with other people's fundraisers later, please donate if you and if you are not able to then share it, I am BEGGING you.
my bravest knighttt... come hither ..... mmmwah !! ok you are dismissed