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Ghost Font: A font that humans can read but AI cannot

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Re: Ghost Font: A font that humans can read but AI cannot

#11
It has bugs with long words: I typed "MARRY AND REPRODUCE". That was the only try that got the last word on a single line, but with too much space between U and C.

If the string is empty, I can read "WRITTEN IN GHOST FONT" very faintly. I'm guessing that is a watermark Edit: Ah, it's decoy text. Of course.

Re: Ghost Font: A font that humans can read but AI cannot

#14
post #9

Humans can read it, but with difficulty. If it becomes important, AI can be taught to read it. So...usefulness?

It’s a research project, that doesn’t need to be useful. They wanted to explorer that area and share their findings

Also this can always result in something useful over time. I'd love if AI safe writing will be possible at some point again...

Re: Ghost Font: A font that humans can read but AI cannot

#15
I've had the same idea recently, and even set up a similar page to experiment with different speeds and noise types. I've had the idea to set up a message board where the font is basically 'GhostFont'. However, in my experiments, I've noticed that the biggest issue is that this only works for larger font sizes. If the text is as small as, for example, on HackerNews, it will become borderline unreadable.

Furthermore, if AI can read this or not depends on how the text sequence is pre-processed. If AI only gets snapshots of the text, it will probably fail in decoding the text as every snapshot contains only white noise and such no information. However, if we calculate the Deltas between the animation frames, the text will become decodable by an AI, you probably don't even need LLMs or CNNs for this.

Re: Ghost Font: A font that humans can read but AI cannot

#17
post #10

Related work (all involve noise and flickering images, photosensitive eyes/brains beware): - "This game disappears if you pause it": https://youtu.be/Bg3RAI8uyVw - "Illusion: If You Pause, The Image Will Disappear": https://youtu.be/ZqGfb_Vlrig

Hahaha one of the comments:

“Not just image. The sound also disappears when you pause”

Brilliant :)

Re: Ghost Font: A font that humans can read but AI cannot

#19
post #16

I pasted a screenshot of the default text ("GHOST FONT") into ChatGPT 5.6 Sol, told it to read it, and without further instruction it chewed on it for awhile before coming back with: WHAT HAPPENS IN VEGAS STAYS IN VEGAS

What did you expect from a screenshot of obvious noise? The only thing that makes the text readable is the motion.

EDIT: On second look, the static screenshot does say "WRITTEN IN GHOST FONT".

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