Is it useful? No. Does it stop AI from reading it? Also no. But is it cool? Yes, it is very cool.
It's similar to any anti face detection art. Probably useless but cool.
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#72Squinting is surprisingly effective for me for seeing the hidden text. That's really cool!
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#73Is it useful? No. Does it stop AI from reading it? Also no. But is it cool? Yes, it is very cool.
Ehh. Probably not many people will be using this particular thing to thwart ai BUT I think it may be a stop on a path towards something very useful someday.
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#74Also goes the other way, where you use the decoy to give instructions to the AI...
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#76Is it useful? No. Does it stop AI from reading it? Also no. But is it cool? Yes, it is very cool.
The demonstration shows that it does stop AI
I mean, I've worked for companies where their curated sales demonstrations showed the speed of light is easily breakable... Do your own testing with some thinking applied.
I mean, I can defeat AI by putting white text on a white background and turning to a picture. Also means it's worthless for actual humans to read too. Try to actually use it on a site and chances are you'll get an ADA complaint.
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#77Poor grannies trying to read the price of some book she wants to buy she can't tell if it says $150 or $15.0
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#78Admittedly 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?
As a project they are kind of fun.
The problem is we see stuff like this try to get turned into actual products by people with questionable motivations and ethics.
Looking at you PhotoGuard/Nightshade.
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#79Is it useful? No. Does it stop AI from reading it? Also no. But is it cool? Yes, it is very cool.
If you present the text in an image / GIF format it could be useful.
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#80Related from same: Ghost Font https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48870381
This one seems much more likely to work for its intended purpose. Even if an LLM can be trained to read it, it will probably take much more processing to get the text out of a video compared to an image.