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Re: Decoy Font

#51
post #12

This seems like it would absolutely wreck the experience for people using screen readers.

It only works as a decoy when you give it to the LLM as an image. As html it appears like normal human friendly text, which is what screen readers use to interpret the text.

Which means that this font is entirely useless unless it is implemented in a way that breaks screen readers.

Re: Decoy Font

#52

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

I just gave the day dream / pay bills image to ChatGPT and Gemini pro and they both could only tell me the pay bills text (shown with the thin lines)

Re: Decoy Font

#53

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

I think this illustrates that you can just do stuff without claiming it is useful. Like couldn't you just make this font and call it something like double-entendre or something?

Re: Decoy Font

#54
post #43

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.

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

All ”AI resistance” I’ve seen is not against the tech, but against human bad actors behind AI: unethical procurement of training data, reckless application, low effort high volyme spam, replacing humans, centralization of power, dependency on megacorps etc. I think a lot of people have become less tech-positive after the ad-tech era that brought us social media, unprecedented levels of surveillance, freemium rug pulls etc. It’s much easier to understand the resistance if you place it in that context, rather than imagining millions of sleeper agent luddites suddenly coming out of the woodworks.

Re: Decoy Font

#55

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

I think this illustrates that you can just do stuff without claiming it is useful. Like couldn't you just make this font and call it something like double-entendre or something?

You could, but is that what they've done?

Re: Decoy Font

#56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think this illustrates that you can just do stuff without claiming it is useful. Like couldn't you just make this font and call it something like double-entendre or something?

You could, but is that what they've done?

I'm just saying they should just drop the dubious claims and just say "I made a font that I think looks cool".

Re: Decoy Font

#60

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

I just gave the day dream / pay bills image to ChatGPT and Gemini pro and they both could only tell me the pay bills text (shown with the thin lines)

Sure, but this is only as useful as useless it is.

Meaning the moment this gets wide adoption AI will have 0 issues dealing with it. LLMs are very good at translating one language to another.

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