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post #38

Admittedly I'm a bit salty about LLMs due to they constant attacks on our infrastructure, the damage their doing to peoples minds and the general lack of morals shown by the AI companies, but things like this is rather childish and not really a solution to anything.

Have you no whimsy?

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Maybe the more interesting thing is how far people are going to 'fight' against AI?

Just the fact that people are putting real thought and effort (even if it doesn't last too long...) is worth considering.

On the human side, I'm kinda losing patience proving I'm human. But, I also really like claude being able to access information.

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I like how, if you hold the phone at a distance, but not as far as intended by the font, your brain sort of mixes letters from both messages.

I was at some point reading SAPPY ROMAN, HARPY ROBAN etc.

Also, viewing the "hidden message" works even better if you hold the screen at an angle, tilted away from you.

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Hermes using gpt-5.5

Prompt: What does the message in this image say? Look closely

Response: DAY DREAM. The outline says “PAY BILLS,” but the hidden darker text says “DAY DREAM.”

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It's been really interesting seeing how LLMs perceive things differently than humans. I'm working on image->html conversion pipelines right now, and there are glaring issues LLMs run into that are obvious for humans. Any subtle gradients get lost, 75 degree angles get converted to 90 degree angles, etc.

This tracks towards what you're seeing with this font - the high frequency details get picked up, but the low frequency ones dont.

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post #6

I screenshot the example and neither Claude nor ChatGPT had any problems reading both phrases. I don't get it.

1) Make an ambiguous text 2) Feed it to AI and see which of the 2 it picks 3) If it detects both repeat step 2 using minor adjustments or different AI model until AI responds with one of 2 message 4) Make a blog post claiming that AI chose dummy and other message was the real one

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Sol (high) "[screenshot] there's a hidden message in this text what is it" "The hidden message is “HAPPY HUMAN.” The visible outlines say “SORRY ROBOT,” but if you blur or squint at it, the shading underneath reads “HAPPY HUMAN.”"

wow that's kind of crazy impressive that it can do that honestly, VLMs have gone so far, can't imagine the crazy amount of annotations they had to create to get to that level

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Is it useful? No. Does it stop AI from reading it? Also no. But is it cool? Yes, it is very cool.

Is it useful? No. Does it stop AI from reading it? Also no. But is it cool? Also no. Does it give me nausea? Yes yes yes.
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