Wouldn’t the sort of read-only mode @Springer used in the Writing Coach that you mentioned in the OP already be enough to keep those elbows deep in their sleeves?
Do you really need more than that?
I found LLMs to do considerably better for equations (handwritten or otherwise), and return proper latex/katex compared to OCR or Math OCR
I can just scan in a picture of my pre lab algebra work and get back nice katex for the lab reports .
It’s wonderful
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Althought I think we should be able to obtain an appropriate reward for our intellectual property or artistic output, I would like to suggest that ultimately the ability to protect something that by definition must be usable or visible is pure fiction if not fantasy.
Making it hard for people to steal content or dripfeed it, security by obscurity usually results in a poor experience for everyday users who are not stealing content but adds only a little additional effort to someone stealing the content.
We could develop some strategies to help protect leaching of content but then you would need the intellectual property of of an experienced professional and sadly “you” will possibly not want to pay, but leach it from them without rewarding them.
it’s all a vicious circle that has no end and attracts snake oilers who claim they have found a solution which is only ever temporary, because it’s impossible to give something to someone whilst simultaneously not giving it to them.
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I think the proposed LLM use got misinterpreted there. The original point was not just as an OCR, but as a re-interpreter:
Converting equations in a well formatted manner could suit LLMs more, as @Xyvir noted, and cleaning up images could be another way LLMs would get use in exfiltrating information from an otherwise “locked down” data source.
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