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Screen readers read text directly, the point of this is to be used in images, which screen readers don’t read anyway.
Facedeer is a bad faith troll and AI evangelist, in case anybody is wondering why he's pretending to care about accessibility.
Ahh, that explains the willful ignorance.
My iPhone reads text from images. I wonder how it’d do with this?
You can take a screenshot or save the image directly. My iPhone reads the blurry text without issue, so this may be more related to LLMs in particular, or of the image is compressed before the analysis, the illusion is broken
Amazon Rekgnition struggles a little more but it’s still reading the blurry text instead of the lines
And if this sort of font became common (and actually kept working) then screen readers never would be able to read these. The point remains that accessibility is being sacrificed for the sake of some kind of general "anti-AI" movement.