»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.