We've seen some creative innovations designed to protect creative work online in the era of AI scraping. Nightshade is a tool that adds a 'poison' to digital art files to pollute datasets when images are used for AI training. Now a type foundry and creative agency have done something comparable for typography, creating a typeface that anyone can use to shield their work.
A couple of weeks ago, we reported on Ghost Font, which uses a kind of optical illusion to prevent AI from reading text. It's a fascinating experiment but has significant limitations. It relies on movement, so it only works as a video or GIF, and there's a high likelihood that AI will come to outsmart it as new models analyse video by optical flow instead of individual frames.
