Once popular for attacking AI, ASCII smuggling is embraced by spammers

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A once-overlooked block of unicode that's invisible to humans is gaining ever wider use.

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2026-09-04 17:18 · Ars Technica AI
Once popular for attacking AI, ASCII smuggling is embraced by spammers

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