It works at full resolution, but it's a cat and mouse game. If something like this becomes popular, then all that needs to be done is to start passing images through a filter first (blur, lower resolution, etc.), or just train a new vision model that can pick out both the blurred message as well as the decoy message.
The downloadable font is especially vulnerable since each letter is a straight map, so easily trainable
Well, I’m glad that we now have a font that makes it look like I’m not wearing my glasses… when I’m wearing my glasses.
Well look at that, it works!!
Nice ! I didn't think the font had a serious purpose before I saw your excellent example..
Here’s the text my phone extracted from that image:
FUCK THE POUXCE
What does this say?
It says "THIN BLUE LINE."
The word BLUE is split between the second and third lines:
THIN
BLU
ELINE
•••
THIN
BLU
ELINEB*
Edge detection moment
Person: does something impressive against AI Comments: it's bad because it's not perfect
Good luck to the visually impaired and their screen readers.
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.
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.
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
I'm pretty sure they're not the intended users
This is art
Clever as fuck
I think this is the first step in an arms race between fonts that can't be read by computers and systems to differentiate between obfuscated text.
Doesn't work on a dark background ? The decoy text is invisible..
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