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»ShildFont is an open-source creative technology intervention developed to protect human writing from unauthorized AI training. Why? Writing makes us human. But at some point, we lost ownership. AI learns from it and uses it without explanation.«
Danish type foundry PlayType teamed up with Brazilian creative studio Seneda & Abrucio to develop technology (and a font) to make text look perfectly normal to humans but poison the data that LLM bots scrape from it without permission. Fascinating! (via fastcompany.com)