The web’s newest weapon against AI scrapers is a font
ShieldFont could make large-scale scraping 5 to 13 times more expensive, its creators say, while leaving pages readable for humans.
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technewstube.comThe web’s newest weapon against AI scrapers is a font
AI companies' penchant for scraping through large swathes of the public web in search of valuable training data has already led to lawsuits and technical fixes aimed at stopping the practice. Now, a pair of designers are hoping to stymie these scrapers with a new font designed to offer people a perfectly readable webpage while serving scrapers a subtly edited, nonsensical version in the underlying HTML. ShieldFont, as designers Isaque Seneda and…
The latest weapon on the Web against IA extraction robots is "ShieldFont", a font designed to corrupt training data without making pages illegible to humansThe new "ShieldFont" font was designed to prevent the exploration of websites by AI robots. It uses ligatures to visually replace common words with other terms, such as replacing "horse" with "potato", making the text absurd for robots...
A designer and a copywriter have announced the fight for AI tools that search websites for freely accessible training data. With a special font they want to prevent artificial intelligence from scraping. read more on t3n.de
Nick Gray, who runs the donor information database "PatronView," has revealed his year-long battle against AI crawlers and scrapers that have been invading his website. Comparing the number of pages served by his server with the access analytics figures, he found that for every one page load recorded by a human, approximately 214 AI-generated page loads occurred. Read more...
ShieldFont disrupts AI scrapers by serving them nonsense while humans read normally
ShieldFont's innovative approach could reshape digital content protection, challenging AI data collection practices and sparking legal and ethical debates. The post ShieldFont disrupts AI scrapers by serving them nonsense while humans read normally appeared first on Crypto Briefing.
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