Anti-AI Fonts Are Useless and Harmful

Obfuscation fonts designed to confuse AI scrapers are ineffective because any information a human can see can in principle be parsed by a machine. The author argues these tools harm accessibility by garbling text that screen readers process, and that public demonstrations serve as benchmarks that help AI companies improve circumvention. The piece warns that widespread adoption could pressure platforms toward centralized identity verification systems, creating risks for disabled users and enabling censorship.