TYPE DESIGNERS HAVE CREATED A FREE FONT THAT "POISONS" AI

Summary from the TLDR Design newsletter

ShieldFont is a free, open-source typeface that protects online content from AI scraping by displaying readable text to humans while subtly altering the underlying source code that many AI crawlers ingest, potentially contaminating training datasets. Unlike previous anti-AI fonts, it works as a practical web font and includes a toolkit that allows the same protection to be applied to other compatible typefaces. Its creators describe it as a way to make unauthorized content scraping more difficult without opposing AI itself, arguing that publishing work online should not be treated as consent for AI training.