Designers Isaque Seneda and Gabriel Abrucio have created a font called ShieldFont aimed at preventing AI companies from scraping data from websites. The font allows web publishers to present a readable webpage to users while providing a modified, nonsensical version of the text to scrapers. This approach utilizes ligatures to replace entire words, rendering the text less valuable for AI training purposes. The substitution occurs only when the font is rendered on-screen, meaning scrapers that access the plaintext source code receive an altered version that users do not see.
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New Font Developed to Combat AI Web Scraping
A new font named ShieldFont has been developed by designers Isaque Seneda and Gabriel Abrucio to help web publishers prevent AI scraping. The font modifies the text displayed to scrapers while maintaining readability for users, using ligatures to replace words with nonsensical alternatives.
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New Font Developed to Combat AI Web Scraping