It only works while it's rare. If it was more common, scrapers would switch to OCR or simply reverse the font so they can decode the ligatures.
Their own whitepaper brings up a bigger issue: if it works, it poisons search engines as well.
Their own whitepaper brings up a bigger issue: if it works, it poisons search engines as well.
Also more expensive doesn't mean that something won't happen, only the dynamics of how it happens. For example if you put all your documents in images then some service might just sell the AI providers the text. That service may do underhanded things like bundle OCR in an app that does something else and use your phone to get the text out of these images all day.