SMRTR AIAug 10, 2026Hacker News

Font looks perfectly normal to humans but wreaks havoc on AI

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ShieldFont is a new font designed to protect web content from AI scraping by secretly swapping words in a site's source code, while displaying the correct text to human readers. This "poisons" the data collected by bots, degrading AI output quality and hopefully pushing AI companies to pay for content legally.

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