{
  "id": 462164,
  "title": "This font looks perfectly normal to humans but wreaks havoc on AI",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/10/this-font-looks-perfectly-normal-to-humans-but-wreaks-havoc-on-ai",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-08-10T10:30:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Fast Company",
    "slug": "fast-company",
    "url": "https://www.fastcompany.com/91585494/this-font-looks-perfectly-normal-to-humans-but-confuses-ai"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "A new “ AI -proof” font was designed to be hard for AI agents to scrape, but you can’t tell by just looking at it. Unlike other anti-AI fonts that use letters that are difficult for bots to read , ShieldFont swaps out words behind the scenes to poison the data that automated scrapers take without permission. ShieldFont was designed as part of a project created by a group of professionals…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}