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5.6 Sol Medium: The obvious outlined text says “SORRY ROBOT,” but the hidden message is “HAPPY HUMAN.” It’s Mixfont’s Decoy Font: the outlined letters attract machine vision, while the softer tonal pattern becomes readable to humans when viewed from farther away or at a smaller size. It’s an optical trick, not encryption.

You probably have web search enabled

Still, that defeats the purpose.

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As do I. The hero image clearly says "SORRY ROBOT" to me, which is the message supposedly intended for AI... kind of a fail. It's only when I squint hard that I can see "HAPPY HUMAN".

You’re doing it the wrong way around, try intentionally letting your eyes defocus.

"intentionally" letting your eyes defocus is not a simple task for most people. Because most people use their eyes normally, they can't do things that are unusual. Look at how many people struggle with Magic Eye stereograms. Squinting on the other hand is something that is simple to do.

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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. https://m.xkcd.com/1217/ 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 compl…

> Try to actually use it on a site and chances are you'll get an ADA complaint. I really doubt that. We've had 2 decades of godawful letter-based CAPTCHAs and I don't think anyone got into legal trouble because of it?

They tend to have something like a sound captcha too

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I generated a skill.md that reads this trivially. What kind of testing are you doing prior to release? https://gist.github.com/voidnullvalue/620607d3c1773f8e7d83fb...

> trivially > 495 LoC

Yep, pointed chatgpt to the page, told it to return a skill to read it, which it did in one turn. I couldn't have spent less effort

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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)

Gemini flash responds to "can you read both messages here?" with: Yes, this is a clever optical illusion! Depending on which layers your eyes focus on, you can read two entirely different messages in this image: Message 1 (The sharp outline layer): PAY BILLS How to see it: Focus on the sharp, concentric black outline contours of the letters. Message 2 (The soft, blurry shadow layer): DAY DREAMS How to see it: Let you…

You've told it that there are 2 messages.

Re: Decoy Font

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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.”"

Oh Nice, I wasn't able to really read the hidden text before reading your squinting part, that's interesting!

I find it works a lot better at smaller sizes.

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> Try to actually use it on a site and chances are you'll get an ADA complaint. I really doubt that. We've had 2 decades of godawful letter-based CAPTCHAs and I don't think anyone got into legal trouble because of it?

They tend to have something like a sound captcha too

In the past, the vast majority used not to.
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