That will work for 5 minutes.

Just like the thorn thing, we're gonna hinder the disabled before we hinder the bots

Do not like

Well look at that, it works!!

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.

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.

This is art

Clever as fuck

Most AI systems work by reading the pixels of an image up close

In the case of text aren't LLM’s reading actual text ?Whats the usecase here ? For any text I dont want to be readable by ai scrapers and such, I need to use this font and render as image(s)?

Person: does something impressive against AI Comments: it's bad because it's not perfect

Top points for effort, but if it's making it hard to read even 2 words.. I'd rather poison/prompt inject via invisible text and not make any humans cross-eyed trying to read that font

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.

Good luck to the visually impaired and their screen readers.

This hurts my eyes, I see both at the same time 🤔

Works better if you have crappy vision.

I think i might be a cylon. 🤖

We can't be writing like this, fuck AI. We tailor our language to avoid sounding like it, analysis images to tell if it had been generated and now using fonts to avoid scraping. What a toxic, horrible invention. An invention that freely takes from workers, repackages it, and monetizes it all for a small class of capitalists while depriving the majority of its value created.

Doesn't work on a dark background ? The decoy text is invisible..

This sounds awful for accessibility tools such as screen readers.

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

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?

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

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.

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

It's so inexplicable to me that the anti-AI font was created by an AI company, of all things... Like, clearly if you make something like this, you understand that we're sick of AI nonsense. And yet!

Obviously, this would only work on images. Otherwise the AI can read the text without the font or the ocr metadata if in PDF format.

Relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/1015/

This doesn't really make sense to me. The way text is displayed is for the human reader, but the underlying text is computer (and AI) readable. You can use Wingdings to write your blog, and only the AI will know what you wrote. This seems like a play.

I'd love to know how well it works in practice.

Me trying to listen to content with my a11y screen reader

This seems like it'd be pretty good for obfuscating email addresses from crawlers. At small point sizes the real text is extremely obvious to a human, but both LLM OCR and pytesseract was failing to extract the real text from this image

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