Devious New Font Turns AI Scrapers Into Mincemeat
The font makes "the text itself polluted, harder, and more expensive to collect without permission." The post Devious New Font Turns AI Scrapers Into Mincemeat appeared first on Futurism .
A group of designers are taking aim at AI scrapers with a new font called "ShieldFont." This font appears as normal text to human eyes, but when AI scrapers scan webpage HTML, they receive scrambled, unintelligible data. This protects publishers' work by making scraping costly and difficult. ShieldFont alters words and phrases, turning them into nonsensical combinations while maintaining readability for humans.
However, OCR cannot decipher the altered text, which could cause problems for disabled users and translation tools. The designers emphasize the goal is to frustrate large-scale automated scraping to respect creators' rights and promote ethical AI practices.
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