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Re: Spellfucker

#101

Post by emodendroket »

saimiam wrote: post #99

At the face of it, this seems like a fool's errand. The upper bound for obfuscation is that the obfuscated text should still be readable by a human with minimal effort. To read, the average reader will looks for patterns like "replace j with the y sound." Once these patterns are determined, coding them into your NLP AI is trivial.

It doesn't have to be bulletproof to serve its purpose, as anybody who remembers downloading "Boon Joovi" MP3s from late Napster can attest. And if some transformations are ambiguous between multiple original spellings, so much the better.

Re: Spellfucker

#103

Post by emodendroket »

bussie wrote: post #81
syphilis2 wrote: post #16

"The goal of the project is to make text hard to read for computers yet fairly easy to read for humans" At first look it doesn't pass the search engine test. https://duckduckgo.com/?q=I%27ve+bien+aloune+whyth+jou+eensi...

"The goal of the project is to make text hard to read for computers yet fairly easy to read for humans" What's the advantage to this?

Defeating censorship, frustrating accounts to analyze or index communications, etc.

Re: Spellfucker

#104

Post by emodendroket »

keithly wrote: post #100
bussie wrote: post #81

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"The goal of the project is to make text hard to read for computers yet fairly easy to read for humans" What's the advantage to this?

Spam comes to mind.

I don't think anybody would have the patience for a spam message that had gone through this.

Re: Spellfucker

#106

Post by baddox »

logicallee wrote: post #57
baddox wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The trick is to run it through your "phonetic processor." Try pronouncing it out loud quickly and smoothly while listening to the sound of your voice. I couldn't quite read it directly, like I do with normal English text, but with a moment's practice I was able to do the phonetic step internally without actually vocalizing.

but "thoe" read that way is a word (i.e. "though"), and th is basically never pronounced as a hard t the way the line I quoted has it meant to be read. "wuaed thoe sai" is somehow meant to be deciphered as "what to say." I would say nobody reading using your method (or any other) can read it correctly. The other comment, for example, misread it (generously) as "they", to make it make sense grammatically. "you know ju…

Of course you're right. The text is obfuscated, after all. It rarely is obvious for individual words, but I had very little trouble understanding it on the phrase and sentence level. It's very similar to that party game Mad Gab, although that one is intended to be much more challenging to understand.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mad_Gab

Re: Spellfucker

#107

Post by samueloph »

xixixao wrote: post #23

Ju kud tejk ej lengvich from ej diferent lengvich femili tu erajv et samfink similr. For furdr obfaskejshn ju kud juz diferent transliterejshn. Slavik pipl shud fajnd dis kvajt ridebl.

Brazilian here with a somewhat good english proficiency. Could understand almost everything. Thanks for that experiment :)

edit- also a little german knowledge by i don't know how much that helped.

Re: Spellfucker

#108

Post by goda90 »

I'm a native English speaker who learned Spanish as an adult, and for some reason my brain jumps to pronouncing these unfamiliar words with a Spanish pronunciation, which made it a struggle to read.

Re: Spellfucker

#109

Post by saimiam »

emodendroket wrote: post #101
saimiam wrote: post #99

At the face of it, this seems like a fool's errand. The upper bound for obfuscation is that the obfuscated text should still be readable by a human with minimal effort. To read, the average reader will looks for patterns like "replace j with the y sound." Once these patterns are determined, coding them into your NLP AI is trivial.

It doesn't have to be bulletproof to serve its purpose, as anybody who remembers downloading "Boon Joovi" MP3s from late Napster can attest. And if some transformations are ambiguous between multiple original spellings, so much the better.

Since the stated goal of the project is

> The goal of the project is to make text hard to read for computers yet fairly easy to read for humans

it has to be close to bulletproof. Humans should be able to decipher obfuscated text while computers should never be able to decipher the same obfuscated text. This is going to be impossible since AI is a fast follower to human ingenuity.

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