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[-] HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml 1 points 25 minutes ago* (last edited 20 minutes ago)

Just looking at the happy human/sorry robot image, it doesn't work as well if the image is large (at least for me), the outline of the decoy message starts to take visual priority over the real message especially if you don't know what it is. With no additional context, I definitely read sorry robot on first glance with the image at phone's width and didn't realise that's not the actual message until I read the description. Seems to work when the letters are smaller though.

[-] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 1 points 40 minutes ago

I feel like this can be easily cracked if you downscale it down to only a few pixels per letter. Then the decoy letters get filtered out and the human letters lose their blur

[-] errer@lemmy.world 6 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

Story checks out in Gemini

Gemini says:

The text in the image reads:

TAJS GBNFBNCB JS

WKJIYBN JN BBCDY FONT

…but man does it hurt my eyes to read

[-] PowerCrazy@lemmy.ml 6 points 4 hours ago

Wait, do people think robots use OCR to spy on them? They have access to the actual unicode symbols. They know that an A is an A regardless if it's displayed as Arial, Times New Roman or Wing Dings. Is there a subculture somewhere that people only communicate through text as images?

[-] Moonrise2473@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 hours ago

It might be useful in some countries where the prevalent unencrypted messaging app is preventively scanning every single image before actually delivering it to the recipient, and silently dropping it if some forbidden keywords are found

[-] RobotToaster@mander.xyz 11 points 7 hours ago

This sounds awful for accessibility tools such as screen readers.

[-] MrWafflesNBacon@lemmy.world 2 points 5 hours ago

I know this has good intentions but this is pretty much an accessibility nightmare

this post was submitted on 16 Jul 2026
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