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Anti-AI fonts are useless and harmful
blog.yaros.ae/anti-ai-fonts-are-useless-and-harmful/
Replying to @inari@piefed.zip
This blogger lets the reader know they don’t know wtf they are talking about in the first fucking paragraph.
Making “anti-ai” fonts that obfuscate or scramble text is a fools errand. For fonts that scramble text, it’s an accessibility problem, since the scrambled text is what screen readers and other accessibility tools will parse.
The text scambling techniques to stop AI do not affect the normal readable font on the page and doesn’t stop text to voice readers. 🤦♂️
[citation needed]
Gonna need more than a confident declaration to convince people potentially impacted by this. Provide it… or shut up.
Try looking up how ShieldFont actually works. Or look at the code yourself; it’s open source.
I just did. To allow screen readers which is what AI would do if this became a common block it uses this:
" Pressing it sets the reader’s browser to solving a compute-heavy puzzle: JavaScript and a few seconds of processing, more than most mass scrapers are willing to spend."
Which is exactly the method already addressed in the article: " requiring computationally expensive systems to access the content"