I see tons of confustion in the comments on whether AI can or can't read it. Bit of a marketing miss -- they should have picked clearly different decoy vs. default actual messages.
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
#72I'm colourblind and this was very difficult to read. If it's the directions to the resistance hq, I'd put in the effort. If it's the manifesto, I just wouldn't read it.
How is it being colorblind affect it? The video is literally black and white only.
I assumed that might be it because that's why I usually struggle with novelty visual stuff, but you're right, it's probably not colour blindness.
Re: Ghost Font: A font that humans can read but AI cannot
#73I can’t read it. Am I AI? Bleep blorp?
Re: Ghost Font: A font that humans can read but AI cannot
#74Technically it works but having to read stuff this way is an unpleasant experience.
Re: Ghost Font: A font that humans can read but AI cannot
#75Earlier quoted context omitted.
> a screenshot The text is a video. Every frame contain random dots, so an individual frame by itself doesn't contain the intended message This "font" exploits the fact that current-gen frontier models will process video one frame at time, but each frame is noise, so by looking at frames in isolation doesn't reveal anything Then, they add a hidden message to each frame just so that the agent report something and stop…
If you take a frame you see it's neither random nor dots: https://i.imgur.com/CgtyGjl.png From a single frame you can definitely identify boundaries because the dots are sliding and get truncated.
They are the boundaries of the decoy, I think. I can sort of make the decoy out in a screenshot.
Re: Ghost Font: A font that humans can read but AI cannot
#76That's... not a font? That's a generated animated image/video? "A computer font or digital font is a digital data file containing a set of graphically related glyphs" so it's not a font, humans can't read it and AI can.
The glyphs are drawn over the time dimension rather than a spacial one
Re: Ghost Font: A font that humans can read but AI cannot
#77It doesn’t work with a screen reader either and I tried two. It’s interesting to me that our hatred of AI is starting to look more like a dislike of the blind and visually impaired.
The ADA suits will be absolutely hilarious and honestly, I can’t wait.
Re: Ghost Font: A font that humans can read but AI cannot
#78That's... not a font? That's a generated animated image/video? "A computer font or digital font is a digital data file containing a set of graphically related glyphs" so it's not a font, humans can't read it and AI can.
> I suppose technically, it's not a font in the traditional sense of a TTF font file. But, Ghost Font is an experiment of a way to graphically communicate in writing in a format that AI cannot easily understand
And this thread is seemingly full of people claiming AI can read it while simultaneously sharing that AI could not read the actual message, only the decoy as demonstrated in TFA.
Re: Ghost Font: A font that humans can read but AI cannot
#79Doesn't look like anything to me
Re: Ghost Font: A font that humans can read but AI cannot
#80Claude Opus 4.8 can read it with a single prompt and no instructions on how to read it. https://ibb.co/WWMSXQkQ
That's the decoy message.