Decoy is an ambigious font that "hides" from AI

Boing Boing reports on Decoy, a new font where each letter is deliberately ambiguous—designed so that artificial intelligence reads one thing while humans see another. In one example, hidden beneath the clearer text 'SORRY ROBOT' is the blurred message 'HAPPY HUMAN,' visible to human eyes but meant to confuse machines. Early testing by the Hacker News community suggests the concept has real limitations, but it's a clever thought experiment about how humans and AI process visual information differently.

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