#shieldfont — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #shieldfont, aggregated by home.social.
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/117084799168358831
ShieldFont FTW! This is genius.
"[C]reators should have a meaningful say in whether their work is used to train AI systems."
"Where consent is not respected, technical design can make taking that work without permission less useful and more costly. … Being discoverable does not mean consenting to AI training.”
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/117084799168358831
ShieldFont FTW! This is genius.
"[C]reators should have a meaningful say in whether their work is used to train AI systems."
"Where consent is not respected, technical design can make taking that work without permission less useful and more costly. … Being discoverable does not mean consenting to AI training.”
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@mwichary @michaelgemar The #Shieldfont site has a section on this, it is basically doing #Anubis-style POW for screen readers.
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@mwichary @michaelgemar The #Shieldfont site has a section on this, it is basically doing #Anubis-style POW for screen readers.
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Type designers have created a free font that "poisons" AI
https://www.creativebloq.com/design/fonts-typography/type-designers-have-created-a-free-font-that-poisons-aiWhite paper: https://shieldfont.org/white-paper/
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Type designers have created a free font that "poisons" AI
https://www.creativebloq.com/design/fonts-typography/type-designers-have-created-a-free-font-that-poisons-aiWhite paper: https://shieldfont.org/white-paper/
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The Register: Open source project fools AI scrapers with poisoned font. “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. Inspect the raw HTML that a scraper reads from a ShieldFonted page, however, and […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/07/31/the-register-open-source-project-fools-ai-scrapers-with-poisoned-font/ -
The Register: Open source project fools AI scrapers with poisoned font. “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. Inspect the raw HTML that a scraper reads from a ShieldFonted page, however, and […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/07/31/the-register-open-source-project-fools-ai-scrapers-with-poisoned-font/ -
Yeah this is definitely witchcraft. Welcome witchcraft, but nevertheless there is some deep black magic at work here.
#ShieldFont makes text look different depending on whether it's being read by a human, or an LLM scraper bot.
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Yeah this is definitely witchcraft. Welcome witchcraft, but nevertheless there is some deep black magic at work here.
#ShieldFont makes text look different depending on whether it's being read by a human, or an LLM scraper bot.
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“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)
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“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)
