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Decoy is an ambigious font that "hides" from AI

A new font called Decoy uses ambiguous glyphs to hide text from AI while remaining readable to humans, though early testing suggests it is not very effective. The font is designed to exploit differences in how machines and people interpret visual information.

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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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