Anti-AI fonts are useless and harmful

Re:Anti-AI fonts are useless and harmful by Uberzi on Thursday August 20, 2026 @02:02PM (#49378029)

It's simply that a font won't solve anything. That concept is worst than security by obscurity, as it causes more problem and add more constraints than what it solves... for a very limited time until AI bots are adjusted to decode those fonts properly.

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Re:Anti-AI fonts are useless and harmful by waterTanuki on Thursday August 20, 2026 @08:24PM (#49382116)

how can you make such a bold claim so early with 0 evidence? A successful (and much more realistic outcome) could be to make a font that is financially infeasible for LLMs to parse but easy for humans.

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Re:Anti-AI fonts are useless and harmful by SideQuark on Friday August 21, 2026 @05:52AM (#49385905)

Yeah, that worked really well for captchas. Now even simple models far surpass humans at recognition.

So there’s plenty of evidence.

Now provide evidence it’s technically possible to make any font “ that is financially infeasible for LLMs to parse but easy for humans.”

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Re:Anti-AI fonts are useless and harmful by psd1 on Friday August 21, 2026 @10:06AM (#49388290)

Broadly, by reasoning from general principles, and applying a confidence level.

I suppose Uberzi has a confidence level in their claim, but it's tedious to hedge every damn thing.

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