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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.
Replying to @Kolanaki@pawb.social
I just tried the demo.
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Visually… it just functions like a copy blocker, which news sites have tried forever to fight plagarism.
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The original text is still in the website’s source, in plain text.
…I don’t even understand what its supposed to accomplish. Just make copy-paste more difficult for humans, or agents looking at the page visually? The raw page source is the thing that’s scraped, AFAIK.