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[–] [email protected] 115 points 2 days ago (20 children)

often this stuff is added as white text (as in, blends with backround), and also possibly placed behind another container, such that manual selection is hard/not possible. So even if someone reads the paper, they will not read this.

[–] KindnessIsPunk 10 points 2 days ago (4 children)

hypothetically, how would one accomplish this for testing purposes.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

Put the LLM instructions in the header or footer section, and set the text color to match the background. Try it on your résumé.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

The truly diabolical way is to add an image to your resume somewhere. Something discrete that fits the theme, like your signature or a QR code to your website. Then hide the white text behind that. A bot will still scan the text just fine… But a human reader won’t even see it when they highlight the document, because the highlighted text will be behind the image.

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