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Type designers have created a free font that "poisons" AI
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Creative Bloq
We've seen some creative innovations designed to protect creative work online in the era of AI scraping.
A couple of weeks ago, we reported on Ghost Font, which uses a kind of optical illusion to prevent AI from reading text.
ShieldFont is a free web font that's highly legible but hides text from AI bots and can contaminate AI datasets – and it's open-source with a toolkit that can be applied to any font.
ShieldFont hides the real meaning of text from AI, and poisons it for good measure (Image credit: Playtype / S&A)ShieldFont was created by the Brazilian creative studio Seneda & Abrucio (S&A) and the Copenhagen-based type foundry Playtype.
Its creators believe that sharing creative work online shouldn't make it fair game for companies to harvest to train their AI.