AI Shield

AI Shield helps protect your content from being used to train AI models, by inserting whitespace that’s invisible to humans, but awkward for AIs.

This is not fool-proof, but will add a roadblock to ML use of the data.

It inserts whitespace characters that are effectively invisible to humans in the middle of words, while also replacing visible whitespace with non-standard, but valid, whitespace characters.

This somewhat blurs the boundary of what’s a word or not, and should work until AI companies add a clean-up process to compensate for it. But until that’s added, it may prevent your content from being trivially used.

In the end, preventing your content from being used without consent or payment requires a social and/or legal solution, not a technological one. But until then, give this a try!

This section describes how to install the plugin and get it working.

1. Click on Plugins > Add New Plugin, and then click on the “Upload Plugin” button. Choose the .zip file to upload it.
2. Once installed, Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ area in WordPress Admin.
3. That’s all you have to do! AI Shield will start protecting your content.

By default, AI Shield will cache obfuscated content for 5 minutes, but you can change the duration, or disable cache entirely (not recommended), from the Settings page.

1. 

   Sample paragraph from a post, copied from the browser. It includes some special characters for testing.

2. 

   The same paragraph pastes into https://invisible-characters.com/view.html. You can see all the whitespace characters at the bottom.

1.0.3

• Fixed priority bug that interfered with some shortcodes

1.0.2

• Fixed minor admin bug
• Reformatted readme.txt

1.0.1

• Added settings page

1.0.0

• Initial release