I think this illustrates that you can just do stuff without claiming it is useful. Like couldn't you just make this font and call it something like double-entendre or something?
replyYou could, but is that what they've done?
replyI'm just saying they should just drop the dubious claims and just say "I made a font that I think looks cool".
replyOh, I fully agree
replyI just gave the day dream / pay bills image to ChatGPT and Gemini pro and they both could only tell me the pay bills text (shown with the thin lines)
replyGemini flash responds to "can you read both messages here?" with:
replyYes, this is a clever optical illusion! Depending on which layers your eyes focus on, you can read two entirely different messages in this image:
Message 1 (The sharp outline layer):
PAY BILLS
How to see it: Focus on the sharp, concentric black outline contours of the letters.
Message 2 (The soft, blurry shadow layer):
DAY DREAMS
How to see it: Let your eyes relax/defocus slightly, or step back from the screen to focus on the soft, heavy grey drop shadows. The blurred shadows transform the "P" into a D, the "B" into a D, the "I" into an R, the "L"s into an M, and the "S" is shared!Sure, but this is only as useful as useless it is.
replyMeaning the moment this gets wide adoption AI will have 0 issues dealing with it. LLMs are very good at translating one language to another.
> Is it useful? No
replySeems like it might have some use thwarting Ring/Flock/etc cameras within a specific proximity.
It's giving major "They Live" vibes.
If you present the text in an image / GIF format it could be useful.
replyThe demonstration shows that it does stop AI
replyI made an image and it fooled GPT. I asked it to look for a hidden message and it found the blurred word.
replyStill cool+fun though.
It only works if you give it a screenshot, but it wouldn't work to block AI scrapers or fetch tools, and I think if printed out, it wouldn't work reliably if you took a photo, especially from afar
replyThe demonstration might, and it may work for certain models with certain prompts, but I just asked gemini if it could see both and it both did see both and gave me a tutorial on how I could see both as if it were a simple magic eye poster.
replyI mean, I've worked for companies where their curated sales demonstrations showed the speed of light is easily breakable... Do your own testing with some thinking applied.
replyI mean, I can defeat AI by putting white text on a white background and turning to a picture. Also means it's worthless for actual humans to read too. Try to actually use it on a site and chances are you'll get an ADA complaint.
It's similar to any anti face detection art. Probably useless but cool.
replysometimes in life there is no reason to kick a rock around besides having fun ;)
replyYeah, it looks good
replyEhh. Probably not many people will be using this particular thing to thwart ai BUT I think it may be a stop on a path towards something very useful someday.
replyIs it useful? No. Does it stop AI from reading it? Also no. But is it cool? Also no. Does it give me nausea? Yes yes yes.
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