Anti-AI fonts are useless and harmful

Anti-AI fonts that scramble or obfuscate text are ineffective and counterproductive because they create accessibility problems for disabled users whose screen readers cannot parse the altered text. The author argues that any obfuscation method publicly demonstrated serves as a benchmark that AI companies use to develop workarounds, creating a pointless cat-and-mouse game that could ultimately lead to harmful web-wide copy-protection systems. Instead, the author contends that accepting the inevitability of AI access to publicly available information and focusing on other solutions is a better approach than pursuing technically flawed anti-AI fonts.