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Decoy is an ambigious font that "hides" from AI

Mixfont has released Decoy, a font designed with ambiguous glyphs that aim to be interpreted differently by AI and humans, displaying one message to machines and another to people. Casual testing by the Hacker News community suggests the font does not work very well, but the project demonstrates an interesting concept.

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Decoy is a font where each glyph is ambigious, the idea being that machines will interpret it one way and humans another. In the example above, HAPPY HUMAN is the hidden blurred text behind the clearer SORRY ROBOT text. Some casual testing by the Hacker News crowd suggest it doesn't work very well, but it's an interesting demonstration of an idea ("Is it useful? — Read the rest

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