If this catches on, AI bots are about to get a whole lot dumber

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ShieldFont

Publish for humans, not for crawlers. A web font that swaps the words in your HTML, so readers see your writing and AI training gets a stale copy.

Why it worked

The video effectively explains a novel and potentially impactful solution to a growing problem (AI data scraping) in an engaging and visually clear manner, using a relatable analogy and demonstrating the technology's effect.

Summary

The video introduces ShieldFont, a font designed to prevent AI web scrapers from collecting accurate data. It works by replacing common words with ligatures that look similar to humans but are nonsensical to AI, effectively poisoning the training data.

Structure

1Introduction to AI bot limitations
2Demonstration of ShieldFont's effect on text
3Explanation of how ShieldFont uses ligatures
4Discussion of the impact on AI training data

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If this catches on, AI bots are about to get a whole lot dumber

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ShieldFont (ACTS - it's a font designed to trick AI scrapers, its function is demonstrated by showing text before and after its application, and explaining how it works. Removing it would change the video's entire point. It is the subject of the video.)

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If this catches on, AI bots are about to get a whole lot dumber Trust me Bro! a whole lot dumber tricking web to effectively play MadLibs with anything the internet. AI can see. ShieldFont, and it uses ligatures to effectively out from unauthorized AI training frick with collecting anyways. Ligatures just glyphs multiple words, but we still into fonts. certain words completely and unrelated concepts on websites, exactly what's scraped by AI bots, the info completely potentially nonsensical AI hallucinations

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If this catches on, AI bots are about to get a whole lot dumber Trust me Bro! a whole lot dumber tricking web to effectively play MadLibs with anything the internet. AI can see. ShieldFont, and it uses ligatures to effectively out from unauthorized AI training frick with collecting anyways. Ligatures just glyphs multiple words, but we still into fonts. certain words completely and unrelated concepts on websites, exactly what's scraped by AI bots, the info completely potentially nonsensical AI hallucinations