https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/designers-and-computer-scientists-create-new-decoy-fonts-that-humans-can-read-and-ai-bots-cannot-180989470/
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“It offers human writers the chance to create cheeky juxtapositional messages, hiding the blurred “Happy Human,” for example, behind a crisp “Sorry Robot.” The message "Read Smithsonian" is obscured by decoy letters in the foreground.”
““I was inspired to make Ghost Font one day after texting with my mom, and I noticed that A.I.”
“Whereas those images were created to better understand human perception, Decoy Font was inspired by a desire for privacy.”
“Designers and Computer Scientists Create New Decoy Fonts That Humans Can Read but A.I.”
“MixFont As the deployment of A.I.”
“The font replaces roughly half of all “content words”—nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs—with random other words in its source code, such that the writing taken by bots is nonsensical.”
“typeface was called Ghost Font : a slightly dizzying display that placed moving words atop a television-static-like background that also constantly shifted.”
“Fun fact: The first font The father of the printing press, Johann Gutenberg, is largely credited with having created the first Western typeface .”
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“kept trying to summarize our messages, many times incorrectly,” Eric Lu , MixFont’s founder, tells Forbes ’ Leslie Katz.”
“The font features two layers of text: one foregrounded in clear outlines and a second dark and blurred in the background.”
“In July, a collaboration of studios including Seneda & Abrucio and PlayType released ShieldFont , a typeface that scrambles text for automated scrapers.”
“Bots Cannot To prevent the trawling and theft of human writing, font-makers are employing both old and new illusions to outsmart large language models Christian Thorsberg | Daily Correspondent September 11, 2026 12:08 p.m.”
“tools into search engines, text messaging and writing platforms becomes increasingly conspicuous and pervasive, some researchers are seeking new ways to insulate words written by humans from the reach of trawling bots and A.I.”
““A sentence is a sequence of decisions,” ShieldFont’s creators write in their white paper , explaining that a primary motivator for their work was to block the theft of human writing by A.I.”
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