ShieldFont Gives Webpages a New Way to Thwart AI Scrapers

AI companies’ widespread scraping of the public web for training data has already prompted lawsuits and technical countermeasures. Designers Isaque Seneda and Gabriel Abrucio created ShieldFont, a typeface that uses ligatures to render alternate words in the underlying HTML as the intended onscreen text. This lets publishers give human readers a perfectly readable page while serving AI scrapers a subtly altered, nonsensical version of the content.