Anti-AI 'font poisoning' video hits 100K likes, but scrapers easily evade it
venturetwins · x · 2026-10-26
venturetwins criticizes the unproductive anti-AI hysteria on Threads: a video urging people to use fonts that "poison" LLM scrapers hit nearly 1M views and 100K likes.
He notes it's futile — modern scrapers easily evade font obfuscation, while making the content unreadable for humans using accessibility tools. He's also concerned the frenzy seems mentally damaging, yet thousands of commenters keep cheering it on with "keep fighting AI."
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