Two designers, Isaque Seneda and Gabriel Abrucio, have created ShieldFont, a typeface designed to protect web content from AI scrapers. It uses ligatures to replace words in the on-screen rendering, so human readers see the original text while scrapers reading the underlying HTML get a nonsensical version.
The designers describe it as a practical opt-out from unauthorized AI training and a way to disrupt data collection when that opt-out is ignored. This approach adds to existing lawsuits and technical measures aimed at blocking AI companies from scraping public websites.
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