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billtarbelltoday at 2:00 PM4 repliesview on HN

Everyone rushing to make their content AI-friendly made me want to figure out how to make content AI-unfriendly. Basically human-written words meant for human eyes only.

So I built "SoulsOnly.ttf": a font for humans not AI, and keyboard firmware to type in it.

The implementation of a font can be "hacked" to make what looks like gobbledegook to a computer, render as legible to humans. Copying and pasting text written in the font into AI to summarize is almost impossible. And to avoid AI image analysis, a version of the font can be loaded with the glyphs scattered and require a simple "focus" interaction by the reader to begin reading. Note that a sufficiently prompted AI agent can definitely read this, so it's not meant to be cryptographically sound, more just unfriendly to the common AI reader!


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arplynntoday at 4:38 PM

Break search and screw over your disabled readers with this one weird trick! Legal in multiple countries

pedrogpimentatoday at 3:53 PM

I love this! But won't the machine easily pick up on this?

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emschwartztoday at 3:02 PM

Hilarious. Nice work

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cwillutoday at 4:33 PM

Fuck blind people I guess?

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