Type designers have created a free font that "poisons" AI

13 hours ago

Type designers have created ShieldFont, a free web font that hides text from AI scrapers and contaminates AI datasets.
ShieldFont is open-source and provides a toolkit to apply its protective system to any font.
Unlike Ghost Font, ShieldFont uses no optical illusion and is highly legible to humans, while altering text in source code for AI scrapers.
ShieldFont changes select words in HTML to alter sentence meanings while keeping them grammatically coherent.
In testing, 55.8% of shielded passages no longer made the same factual claim as the original, and it could survive filtering to enter AI training datasets.
The creators emphasize ShieldFont is not anti-AI but aims to enforce opt-out from scraping, as robots.txt is often bypassed.
ShieldFont is designed to slow down mass scraping, making it harder and more costly, though not unbreakable against determined scrapers.
It can be implemented via online encoder, React component, CSS, CDN, or custom font builder.

Decoy Font17 days ago

Decoy Font is a TTF font that prints a decoy for every letter to make it harder for AI to read text.
It uses separate spatial frequencies to display two letters in the same space: thin outlines in the foreground and low-frequency blurred background.
AI systems focus on the foreground text, but from a distance or with squinting, the hidden message becomes readable.

Ghost Font is an anti-AI font that uses motion, video, noise, and decoys to create messages readable by humans but not easily deciphered by AI models.
It works by displaying letters through moving dots, making static screenshots ineffective; even advanced AI like Claude Fable and GPT Sol 5.6 Ultra struggle without specific prompts.
The font includes a decoy message to trick AI agents, adding a layer of protection beyond simple motion-based obfuscation.

The anti-scraping measure uses a custom font where letters are remapped to different characters, so the HTML appears jumbled but the text renders correctly.
Disabling JavaScript does not break the protection because the font itself is responsible for the obfuscation, not scripts.
Bypassing requires mapping each jumbled character to its visual letter, but if the font is randomized per page load, the mapping becomes harder.

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ShieldFont, an open source project, poisons fonts to fool AI scrapers and protect text content.
For the first time, the majority of corporate IT workloads are now off-premises, according to a survey.

Glyphs 4 introduces pen points for variable strokes that adapt smoothly along a path.
COLRv1 support allows colored shapes, blends, gradients, and live previews.
Visual kerning groups let you drag and drop glyphs to organize kerning instantly.

Decoy Font17 days ago

Decoy Font is a TTF font that prints a decoy for every letter to make it harder for AI to read text.
It uses separate spatial frequencies to display two letters in the same space: thin outlines in the foreground and low-frequency blurred background.
AI systems focus on the foreground text, but from a distance or with squinting, the hidden message becomes readable.

Ghost Font is an anti-AI font that uses motion, video, noise, and decoys to create messages readable by humans but not easily deciphered by AI models.
It works by displaying letters through moving dots, making static screenshots ineffective; even advanced AI like Claude Fable and GPT Sol 5.6 Ultra struggle without specific prompts.
The font includes a decoy message to trick AI agents, adding a layer of protection beyond simple motion-based obfuscation.

The anti-scraping measure uses a custom font where letters are remapped to different characters, so the HTML appears jumbled but the text renders correctly.
Disabling JavaScript does not break the protection because the font itself is responsible for the obfuscation, not scripts.
Bypassing requires mapping each jumbled character to its visual letter, but if the font is randomized per page load, the mapping becomes harder.

High-bandwidth flash memory technology could enable GPUs with multiple TB capacity, combining SSD-like capacities with HBM-like speeds.
ShieldFont, an open source project, poisons fonts to fool AI scrapers and protect text content.
For the first time, the majority of corporate IT workloads are now off-premises, according to a survey.

Glyphs 4 introduces pen points for variable strokes that adapt smoothly along a path.
COLRv1 support allows colored shapes, blends, gradients, and live previews.
Visual kerning groups let you drag and drop glyphs to organize kerning instantly.

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