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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.

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New font turns ordinary webpages into nonsense for AI scrapers

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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ShieldFont disrupts AI scrapers by serving them nonsense while humans read normally

Designers Isaque Seneda and Gabriel Abrucio launch ShieldFont, corrupting scraped HTML via 24.4% word substitution—90% automated rejection, 67% accuracy drop. Open-source defense enabling publishers to block unauthorized training data extraction.

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giovedì 13 agosto 2026·arstechnica.com
New font turns ordinary webpages into nonsense for AI scrapers
“ShieldFont” aims to poison AI training data without making pages unreadable for people.
giovedì 13 agosto 2026·arstechnica.com
The web’s newest weapon against AI scrapers is a font
“ShieldFont” aims to poison AI training data without making pages unreadable for people.

New font turns ordinary webpages into nonsense for AI scrapers

ShieldFont disrupts AI scrapers by serving them nonsense while humans read normally

Timeline cronologica

New font turns ordinary webpages into nonsense for AI scrapers

The web’s newest weapon against AI scrapers is a font

ShieldFont disrupts AI scrapers by serving them nonsense while humans read normally