Title: AI Shield
Author: Matthew
Published: <strong>Nopémber 22, 2023</strong>
Last modified: Nopémber 23, 2023

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It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when
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# AI Shield

 By [Matthew](https://profiles.wordpress.org/kinggmobb/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/ai-shield.1.0.3.zip)

 * [Details](https://su.wordpress.org/plugins/ai-shield/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://su.wordpress.org/plugins/ai-shield/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://su.wordpress.org/plugins/ai-shield/#installation)
 * [Development](https://su.wordpress.org/plugins/ai-shield/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/ai-shield/)

## Description

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!

## Screenshots

 * [[
 * Sample paragraph from a post, copied from the browser. It includes some special
   characters for testing.
 * [[
 * The same paragraph pastes into https://invisible-characters.com/view.html. You
   can see all the whitespace characters at the bottom.

## Installation

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.

## FAQ

### How do I know it’s working if it’s invisible?

Try copying-and-pasting some post body content into https://invisible-characters.
com/view.html, and click on the “View!” button. It will show you all the invisible
characters. Anything that begins with “U+”, but isn’t “U+0020” is nonstandard whitespace.
Note that some of it appears _inside_ words.

There’s also a handy link to invisible-characters.com if you look at AI Shield on
the Plugins page.

### What content does it protect?

For now, the body content, previews, and titles, but not things like images. If 
you want those to be obscured too, let me know.

## Reviews

There are no reviews for this plugin.

## Contributors & Developers

“AI Shield” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this
plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ Matthew ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/kinggmobb/)

[Translate “AI Shield” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/ai-shield)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ai-shield/), check 
out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/ai-shield/), or subscribe
to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/ai-shield/) by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/ai-shield/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Changelog

#### 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

## Meta

 *  Version **1.0.3**
 *  Last updated **2 years ago**
 *  Active installations **Fewer than 10**
 *  WordPress version ** 5.6.10 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **6.4.8**
 *  PHP version ** 7.4 or higher **
 *  Language
 * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/ai-shield/)
 * Tags
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   [gpt](https://su.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/gpt/)[openai](https://su.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/openai/)
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## Contributors

 *   [ Matthew ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/kinggmobb/)

## Support

Got something to say? Need help?

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