ShieldFont founders clarify project's purpose: not anti-AI, but for content control

By PulseAugur Editorial · [1 sources] · 2026-08-01 20:40

ShieldFont, a new font developed by Isaque Seneda and Gabriel Abrucio, is designed to prevent AI models from using published content. The founders emphasize that ShieldFont is not an anti-AI project but rather a tool to enforce opt-out preferences, as traditional methods like robots.txt are often ignored. The font's design aims to make content itself the mechanism for opting out of AI training data. AI

IMPACT Provides a novel method for content creators to control AI training data usage.

RANK_REASON A new product (font) is released with specific functionality.

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ShieldFont founders clarify project's purpose: not anti-AI, but for content control

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"ShieldFont is not an anti-AI project," S&A's founders Isaque Seneda and Gabriel Abrucio stress. "We’re simply against the idea that publishing is the same as c

"ShieldFont is not an anti-AI project," S&A's founders Isaque Seneda and Gabriel Abrucio stress. "We’re simply against the idea that publishing is the same as consenting. We saw how existing opt-out protocols such as robots.txt were being routinely bypassed, so we wanted to creat…

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"ShieldFont is not an anti-AI project," S&A's founders Isaque Seneda and Gabriel Abrucio stress. "We’re simply against the idea that publishing is the same as c

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