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Blocking LLM crawlers without JavaScript

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198 points todsacerdoti | 1 comments | 15 Nov 25 23:30 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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behnamoh ◴[16 Nov 25 02:17 UTC] No.45942195[source]▶
Any ideas on how to block LLMs from reading/analyzing a PDF? I don't want to submit a paper to journals only for them to use ChatGPT to review it...

(it has happened before)

Edit: I'm starting to get downvoted. Perhaps by the lazy-ass journal reviewrs?

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1. cortesoft ◴[16 Nov 25 03:02 UTC] No.45942415[source]▶
If someone can read it, they can put it through an LLM. There is no possible way to prevent that. Even with crazy DRM, you could take a picture of your screen and OCR it.

They are trying to block automated LLM scraping, which at least has some possibility of having some success.