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ShieldFont Uses Ligatures To Block AI Scrapers
Designers Isaque Seneda and Gabriel Abrucio created ShieldFont to disrupt unauthorized data collection. The font uses ligatures to display readable text to humans while serving nonsensical characters to scrapers in the HTML. It provides a technical opt-out for publishers. This method offers a clever, though likely temporary, hurdle for LLM training pipelines.