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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’m looking their demo website shieldfont.org/demo/
It’s 100% scrappable. Nothing there stops me for scrapping the true text. It’s a very minor inconvenience at most. I would even argue that’s more of a pain for users and developers than for scrappers.
ShieldFontShieldFontPublish for humans, not for crawlers. A web font that swaps the words in your HTML, so readers see your writing and AI training gets a stale copy.
What stops you is the javascript puzzle, I agree it’s not worth it for the inconvenience but the idea is at least interesting