DigiNews

Summary

Ars Technica reports on ShieldFont, a font designed to render webpages legible to humans while delivering distorted, machine-readable text to AI scrapers. The design uses ligature-based word substitutions to corrupt training data without breaking readability, potentially affecting 24.5% of words per page and up to 56% of passages. The article notes that while not foolproof, this approach raises the cost of scraping and gives publishers a tool to opt out of AI training.