#gsub — Public Fediverse posts

“If you don't want #AIScrapers training themselves on your website, there's a new way to stop them that doesn't involve server-side blocking or praying they respect your instructions in robots.txt. A team of creatives have teamed up with a typography company to create a new type of font that’ll trick #LLM scrapers into ingesting poisoned gibberish.

Dubbed #ShieldFont, the #OpenSource project almost seems like magic if you're not familiar with the ins and outs of computer fonts. Look at a #web page written using a ShieldFont font and it’ll appear exactly as one would expect: All the content words (the nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs that give a sentence meaning) are the same as the writer originally wrote”

I’m going to try this ☺️

#AI / #ArtificialIntelligence / #scrapers / #AIPoisoning / #GSUB <https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/07/30/open-source-project-fools-ai-scrapers-with-poisoned-font/5281303>

<https://github.com/isaqueseneda/shieldfont> (source)

<https://shieldfont.org/encoder> (demo)

“If you don't want #AIScrapers training themselves on your website, there's a new way to stop them that doesn't involve server-side blocking or praying they respect your instructions in robots.txt. A team of creatives have teamed up with a typography company to create a new type of font that’ll trick #LLM scrapers into ingesting poisoned gibberish.

Dubbed #ShieldFont, the #OpenSource project almost seems like magic if you're not familiar with the ins and outs of computer fonts. Look at a #web page written using a ShieldFont font and it’ll appear exactly as one would expect: All the content words (the nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs that give a sentence meaning) are the same as the writer originally wrote”

I’m going to try this ☺️

#AI / #ArtificialIntelligence / #scrapers / #AIPoisoning / #GSUB <https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/07/30/open-source-project-fools-ai-scrapers-with-poisoned-font/5281303>

<https://github.com/isaqueseneda/shieldfont> (source)

<https://shieldfont.org/encoder> (demo)

“If you don't want #AIScrapers training themselves on your website, there's a new way to stop them that doesn't involve server-side blocking or praying they respect your instructions in robots.txt. A team of creatives have teamed up with a typography company to create a new type of font that’ll trick #LLM scrapers into ingesting poisoned gibberish.

Dubbed #ShieldFont, the #OpenSource project almost seems like magic if you're not familiar with the ins and outs of computer fonts. Look at a #web page written using a ShieldFont font and it’ll appear exactly as one would expect: All the content words (the nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs that give a sentence meaning) are the same as the writer originally wrote”

I’m going to try this ☺️

#AI / #ArtificialIntelligence / #scrapers / #AIPoisoning / #GSUB <https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/07/30/open-source-project-fools-ai-scrapers-with-poisoned-font/5281303>

<https://github.com/isaqueseneda/shieldfont> (source)

<https://shieldfont.org/encoder> (demo)

“If you don't want #AIScrapers training themselves on your website, there's a new way to stop them that doesn't involve server-side blocking or praying they respect your instructions in robots.txt. A team of creatives have teamed up with a typography company to create a new type of font that’ll trick #LLM scrapers into ingesting poisoned gibberish.

Dubbed #ShieldFont, the #OpenSource project almost seems like magic if you're not familiar with the ins and outs of computer fonts. Look at a #web page written using a ShieldFont font and it’ll appear exactly as one would expect: All the content words (the nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs that give a sentence meaning) are the same as the writer originally wrote”

I’m going to try this ☺️

#AI / #ArtificialIntelligence / #scrapers / #AIPoisoning / #GSUB <https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/07/30/open-source-project-fools-ai-scrapers-with-poisoned-font/5281303>

<https://github.com/isaqueseneda/shieldfont> (source)

<https://shieldfont.org/encoder> (demo)

“If you don't want #AIScrapers training themselves on your website, there's a new way to stop them that doesn't involve server-side blocking or praying they respect your instructions in robots.txt. A team of creatives have teamed up with a typography company to create a new type of font that’ll trick #LLM scrapers into ingesting poisoned gibberish.

Dubbed #ShieldFont, the #OpenSource project almost seems like magic if you're not familiar with the ins and outs of computer fonts. Look at a #web page written using a ShieldFont font and it’ll appear exactly as one would expect: All the content words (the nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs that give a sentence meaning) are the same as the writer originally wrote”

I’m going to try this ☺️

#AI / #ArtificialIntelligence / #scrapers / #AIPoisoning / #GSUB <https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/07/30/open-source-project-fools-ai-scrapers-with-poisoned-font/5281303>

<https://github.com/isaqueseneda/shieldfont> (source)

<https://shieldfont.org/encoder> (demo)