Anti-AI fonts are useless and harmful

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Making “anti-ai” fonts that obfuscate or scramble text is a fools errand. For fonts that scramble text, it's an accessibility problem, since the scrambled text is what screen readers and other accessibility tools will parse. Already, you've cut out many of the humans you're trying to reach.

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Anti-AI fonts are useless and harmful

Making “anti-ai” fonts that obfuscate or scramble text is a fools errand. For fonts that scramble text, it's an accessibility problem, since the scrambled text is what screen readers and other accessibility tools will parse. Already, you've cut out many of the humans you're trying to reach.

Source: yaros.ae (124 points, 86 comments) Hacker News discussion

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