Every word you publish online can be scraped to train AI — no consent,
no credit, no way to opt out. Together with type foundry Playtype, we
built ShieldFont: a typeface that shows human readers your original
words while feeding AI scrapers scrambled gibberish.
Publish freely. Poison the dataset.
Publish freely. Poison the dataset.
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INSIGHT
Every sentence you publish can be harvested to train AI — no consent, no credit, no opt-out. Writers became the raw material, and nobody asked them.
Every sentence you publish can be harvested to train AI — no consent, no credit, no opt-out. Writers became the raw material, and nobody asked them.
STRATEGY
You can't stop the scrapers, so poison the well. Split what a human reads from what a machine reads, and let the machine choke on the difference.
You can't stop the scrapers, so poison the well. Split what a human reads from what a machine reads, and let the machine choke on the difference.
IDEA
ShieldFont — a typeface with a cipher baked in. OpenType ligatures remap the glyphs so readers see your real words, while the source code AI scrapes reads as nonsense.
ShieldFont — a typeface with a cipher baked in. OpenType ligatures remap the glyphs so readers see your real words, while the source code AI scrapes reads as nonsense.
CRAFT
A real, installable font plus a one-line CSS drop-in and a live encoder. Open-source, free, and already protecting writing at shieldfont.org.
A real, installable font plus a one-line CSS drop-in and a live encoder. Open-source, free, and already protecting writing at shieldfont.org.
SHIELD YOUR WORK
Type your words, and watch AI read gibberish while you read the original. Try the live encoder — free and open-source.
SHIELD YOUR WORK → TRY THE DEMO
Type your words, and watch AI read gibberish while you read the original. Try the live encoder — free and open-source.
SHIELD YOUR WORK → TRY THE DEMO