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How one YouTuber is trying to poison the AI bots stealing her content

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F4mi seeds YouTube transcripts with junk data that is invisible to humans but poisonous to any AI that tries to steal them.

The key to her method is theass subtitle format, created decades ago as part of fansubbing software Advanced SubStation Alpha .

She added text from public domain works or her own LLM-generated scripts full of completely made-up facts.