Designers and Computer Scientists Create New Decoy Fonts That Humans Can Read but A.I. Bots Cannot
DesignArtsCybersecurity
THE AI ANGLE
Unauthorized trawling, scraping, and summarizing of human writingDesigners and computer scientists are developing innovative adversarial typefaces—such as layered optical illusions and code-scrambling fonts—that remain legible to humans while presenting deceptive or nonsensical data to AI scrapers. For faculty in design, the arts, and cybersecurity, this trend highlights a creative convergence where typographic craft doubles as an active defensive measure against unauthorized data harvesting.
THE TEACHING ANGLE
Students can examine how visual and typographic design can be weaponized as cybersecurity defenses to poison unauthorized scrapers and protect human intellectual labor from AI exploitation.Read the original at smithsonianmag.com Generate teaching or study materials
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