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

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A block of unicode that is invisible to humans and was once used mainly to attack AI systems is now being adopted more widely by spammers.

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“A once-overlooked block of unicode that’s invisible to humans is gaining ever wider use.”
Ars Technica AI, 04 Sept 2026, 17:18.

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