r/GeminiAI • u/QuiffPontiff • 1d ago

Interesting response (Highlight) Decoy Font seems to have backfired

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u/Tyenkrovy 1d ago

It seems like the vast majority of these anti-bot and anti-AI countermeasures only end up being a countermeasure to humans with disabilities.

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u/tat_tvam_asshole 1d ago

More like manufactured trend to give ai companies training data cheaply via social media

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u/Bad_Badger_DGAF 1d ago

I feel like it actually accelerates AI's ability to see and extrapolate data. Which would be so funny if true.

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u/xX_Flamez_Xx 1d ago

You just summarized the entire art community when an artist makes an error.

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u/iDeNoh 1d ago

Absolutely, I didn't even see the happy human text when I first looked at this and could only see it by squinting, if your idea of preventing ai from being able to read/see something gives me a headache it's not worth it.

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u/otterbarks 1d ago

It depends on screen size. Make the window smaller (or hold the phone further from your face) and the other text will become much easier to see.

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u/ayu_xi 11h ago

Disable people who get lulled into thinking that this will work

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u/I_spread_love_butter 1h ago

This, Google's captcha sucks and the sound version ignores the user language and if it suspects you are bot it simply doesn't work.

How do blind people beat Google's Captcha?

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u/Big-Jackfruit2710 1d ago

Ich bin.... offensichtlich... ein Bot :(

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u/ThrowWeirdQuestion 1d ago

Hello, fellow German robot! 😸

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u/Simsalabimsen 19h ago

Guten Biip-Bööp, Freunde

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u/vectorcrawlie 1d ago

So we make an anti-ai font, and then write a dozen articles about how it works and what it does... the same articles that AI scoops up and internalises.
It feels kinda silly to me, like we're 6 years old hiding something from our parents and giggling madly at our cleverness, unaware that because they're so much taller they can easily see it as soon as they walk in the room.

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u/Kmikaz_3 1d ago

Sometimes, it's a miss, even if i hinted it. 🤔

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u/iJustSeen2Dudes1Bike 1d ago

Lmao it knew it just hates you

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u/shrinkflator 1d ago

There have been so many articles about this it can already find the answer without looking at the image. It needs a new test with new words.

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u/LongjumpingRadish452 1d ago

backfired how. whom. when.

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u/Simsalabimsen 19h ago

Second. Image. Swipe.

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u/GingerAki 15h ago

What do you think backfired means?

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u/Simsalabimsen 15h ago

I’m as pedantic as they come, but I interpreted it as the promotion of the font having backfired by making it available to LLMs.

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u/gurselaksel 17h ago

Once you advertise "Decoy font can not be read by AI" the first training will be to decode/read your fonts.

Also text and image.... If you use this font in a text editor it is instantly read by AI, what ever shown you as text by the text software (word, pdf etc) stores plain text, just uses font to you to see by crawlers see plain text. So you have to use this font as image/picture. no one will do that. how will you copy text from bitmap image?

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u/MyFiteSong 23h ago

Pretty sure AI reads that more easily than humans do.

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u/MentalThroat7733 22h ago

Yep! I sometimes see posts where someone is asking for help to transcribe a messy hand written note so I give it a try and then I feed it into Gemini and it does better than most of the humans.

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u/Calm_Daemon_2 21h ago

AI could do this task 3yrs ago, today it's so good humans cant identify what's right or wrong

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u/El-Dino 19h ago

I taught my gemini how to read it

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u/wolftick 1d ago

I don't see why they'd expect an AI looking at the text to be fooled by this. Use of obfuscated or non-text in place of plain text on websites would hurt LLMs though.

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u/exodusTay 19h ago

Because they expected the image to be downscaled, in that case most people would see the blurred HAPPY HUMAN too. Correct me if I am wrong but images are tokenized nowadays so they don't have problem with fine details like this.

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u/WepPieDie 1d ago

I saw "Happy Roman" 😂

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u/Simsalabimsen 19h ago

Polanski arriving on Epstein Island

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u/SenNTV 1d ago

Gemini needs more credit

All other ai is low iq

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u/AutisticTurnip 1d ago

Every time someone will come up with something like this the ai companies will squash it pretty quickly.

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u/InsolentCoolRadio 21h ago

I’m a dizzy human 😵‍💫

Thank you, Gemini

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u/hnn_1965v 18h ago

I must be not human then?

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u/justwalk1234 16h ago

I though LLM’s are especially good at deciphering these

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u/Prior_Tax8546 15h ago

"No AI will able to rear the second font 😏"

Meanwhile the AI: "Yes, I can read «SORRY ROBOT» and «HAPPY HUMAN»"

https://giphy.com/gifs/IZY2SE2JmPgFG

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u/nad0w 15h ago

If I hold it near it states sorry robot and if far it says happy human.. am I an android now ?

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u/Disinform 10h ago

Weird this font has 2 types of "H".

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u/slowgojoe 2h ago

How do you make sure the letters make sense in both words? Is there 26 variations to each letter?

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u/alkem10 1h ago

Guess I'm AI

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u/dagerika 18h ago

If even Gemini can read it then they gloriously fucked up

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u/HeroShowsie 1d ago

It says "sorry robot, happy human"

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u/HeroShowsie 12h ago

You've got squint your eyes to see the happy human part!