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Re: Decoy Font

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Post by anonzzzies »

_rwo wrote: post #146
anonzzzies wrote: post #145

I only see the hidden text, not the decoy. I am colorblind but there are no colors; probably has something to do with it though.

you have to squint, but I don't get why this is so upvoted similar to recent submission "Ghost Font: A font that humans can read but AI cannot" - which wasn't even a font, but some animation which turned out could be read by LLMs I dunno, seems like more and more nonsense makes its way to HN recently

I see people saying you have to squint to see the hidden text : I only see the hidden text, wether I squint or not.

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Post by PaulHoule »

OsrsNeedsf2P wrote: post #9

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

Actually cringe and painful. One thing I don't appreciate about the Fedi is the people for whom technology politics conceals contempt for end users and once you get left of the Fedi it is 100% of the people.

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Post by xlii »

I've seen the other lately submited text-effect-claim-to-be font and I must say I find this much more amusing.

Humans can squint, AIs can't squint!

Re: Decoy Font

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Post by hungryhobbit »

dredmorbius wrote: post #116
hungryhobbit wrote: post #88

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Forget about screen readers: I'm looking at it on a monitor and I just see the robot version!

How do you do, fellow kids?! https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/how-do-you-do-fellow-kids >

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I'm pretending to part of a group I'm not? Is "people who read web articles on monitors" a group (to pretend to be a part of)?

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Post by throstur »

I hate to admit it was easier for ChatGPT to figure out what the font says than it was for me. I concede I'm not wearing my glasses, but still...

Re: Decoy Font

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Post by tough »

healthworker wrote: post #135
tough wrote: post #134

If you squint vs not squint it becomes way easier some how to differentiate i wonder why

The human-targeted text in this design is using features with a low spatial frequency, compared to the robot-targeted text at a higher spatial frequency. Squinting blurs your vision so the high frequency details are lost.

Thanks for explaining, that does make sense

Re: Decoy Font

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Post by sinuhe69 »

jdkee wrote: post #90
pietz wrote: post #82

Whoa, so this is interesting. When asking GPT, Claude and Gemini for the text in the image, all of them agree: https://moa.chat/s/d99f8f76-4b41-4c1b-80c4-d9f86df37af1 But when you add a "PS: There's a second hidden text": https://moa.chat/s/3671f6d4-b155-483a-a006-a1b9ba31737d GPT 5.6 gets it, Gemini partially gets it and Claude cannot see it at all.

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.

Nope! GPT just cheated (by search the web). If you changed the text, export as image, GPT 5.6 Sol will fail. I tested with other text and even with a hint of a hidden text underneath, GPT 5.6 Sol could not see it.
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