Bloomberg
A New Way to Confuse AI
Friday, September 4, 2026
A typeface designed to reduce large language model accuracy was recently developed by researchers. The typeface alters character shapes in ways that remain legible to humans but degrade machine reading performance. Researchers have not publicly disclosed the specific technical mechanisms of how the typeface functions against LLMs.
Original reporting: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2026-09-04/a-new-way-to-confuse-ai
