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New Font ShieldFont Designed to Block AI Scraping
Original: To push back against unauthorized LLM scraping, typeface designers are creating fonts that can trick AI. ShieldFont was designed to be difficult for AI agents to scrape, but you wouldn’t know it just by looking at it. The typeface swaps out words behind the scen
Typeface designers have created ShieldFont, a font built to resist unauthorized scraping by large language models. To the human eye it looks like a normal typeface, but behind the scenes it swaps out words so AI agents that copy text end up harvesting garbled or misleading content instead. The design is the latest example of creatives using technical workarounds to fight back against companies training AI models on their work without permission or payment.
Why now: Growing concern among designers and creatives about AI companies scraping their work without consent.
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