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David Gerard @awful.systems

6mo ago

YouTuber f4mi tells you how to poison AI video scrapers with ‘.аss’ subtitles

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YouTuber f4mi tells you how to poison AI video scrapers with ‘.аss’ subtitles

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6mo ago

YouTuber f4mi tells you how to poison AI video scrapers with ‘.аss’ subtitles

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f4mi's channel is fantastic btw, fun little deep dives on old hardware and games. highly recommend checking her stuff out
- the Smasnug investigation is amazing
Works on some, but a lot of AI stuff uses a Speech to Text process to create the annotations themselves instead of trusting the provided subtitles.
- The video mentions this as well as other practical limitations (like OOMing the youtube phone app lol).
  Really there are fairly straightforward technical ways around these techniques -- out of bounds or invisible subtitles can be cropped, or individual letters can be formed into paragraphs the same way PDF readers do; but it's still funny that it works at all and involves the word ass.
  It comes on the coattails of a long history of AI companies not caring at all about security, privacy, data integrity, or being nice people.
- We can insert quick speech fragments into the video, just like at the end of a radio commercial.