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Fonts Against the Machines
Type designers and computer scientists created fonts designed to frustrate AI scrapers. MixFont’s Decoy Font overlays a clear human message with a blurred decoy that machines may misread, while ShieldFont scrambles key words in its source code, turning stolen text into gibberish and making a timely privacy argument.
Why it worked: It flipped the AI-scraping debate into a concrete, visual demo—live fonts that poison models—backed by a fresh technical white paper.
The lesson: Consider pitching a simple, testable prototype that visibly “breaks” a dominant system and pair it with concise, quotable stats.
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How this story spread across the media
| Publication | Headline | Date |
|---|---|---|
| creativebloq.com | Type designers have created a free font that "poisons" AI | Creative Bloq | Thursday 30th July, 2026 |
| arstechnica.com | The web’s newest weapon against AI scrapers is a font - Ars Technica | Wednesday 12th August, 2026 |
| lithub.com | Literary Hub » A new font promises to hide your text from AI. | Thursday 3rd September, 2026 |
| smithsonianmag.com | Designers and Computer Scientists Create New Decoy Fonts That Humans Can Read but A.I. Bots Cannot | Friday 11th September, 2026 |