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  • Sunday, August 16th 2026
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    »It shields text from large language models (LLMs) by garbling sentences in the HTML source code, leaving automated scrapers to sift through sentences filled with decoy words that make a sentence incoherent. Thanks to a custom font on a backend, though, the real text is displayed for a human reader to see.«

    Danish type foundry PlayType teamed up with Brazilian creative studio Seneda & Abrucio to create ShieldFont, which looks perfectly normal to humans but poisons the data that LLM bots scrape without permission. Fascinating.

    fastcompany.com/91585494/this-font-looks-perfectly-normal-to-humans-but-confuses-ai

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