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Looks can be deceiving
“ShieldFont” aims to poison AI training data without making pages unreadable for people.
The cowboy was riding a potato? Huh... guess I'd better update my weights for potato tokens...
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New font turns ordinary webpages into nonsense for AI scrapers
“ShieldFont” aims to poison AI training data without making pages unreadable for people.
TL;DRAI
ShieldFont replaces 24.5% of words with unrelated synonyms, staying readable while poisoning AI training—90% of pages fail scraper filters. Scrapers choose between poisoned data or 5-13x costlier OCR, raising unauthorized AI training costs and enforcing creator consent rights.
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