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Cute. But please don't use this, because in addition to making your text useless for LLMs it makes it useless for blind and vision impaired people who depend on screen readers.


And, conversely, it (presumably) has no effect on VLMs using captive browsers and screenshotting to read webpages.


> making your text useless for LLMs

It arguably doesn't even do this. If this is adopted widely, it would only be for current LLMs; newer models could (and would) be trained to detect and ignore zero-width/non-printable characters.




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