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ShieldFont Fights AI Scraping With Deceptive Text

A new web font, ShieldFont, has been developed to combat AI scraping by presenting different text to human readers than to automated crawlers. Created by Isaque Seneda and Gabriel Abrucio with support from the Playtype type foundry, ShieldFont launched in October 2025. It works by displaying one set of words on screen while embedding a different, decoy set of words in the page's source code.