Decoy Font combines every letter with a decoy, making it harder for AI to read what you type. Type a message to try it out or download the TTF directly.
By “bad faith troll and AI evangelist” XLE means “someone I disagree with about this topic, and therefore that I follow around obsessively accusing of being a troll.”
He’s really rather sad that way, I notice that every thread I’ve been in over the past few days with any relation to AI he’s been adding this comment to. Guess he noticed me again. At least he’s stopped calling me a literal bot or accusing me of being “from Reddit” as if that meant something nefarious.
You can take a screenshot or save the image directly. My iPhone reads the blurry text without issue, so this may be more related to LLMs in particular, or of the image is compressed before the analysis, the illusion is broken
And if this sort of font became common (and actually kept working) then screen readers never would be able to read these. The point remains that accessibility is being sacrificed for the sake of some kind of general “anti-AI” movement.
Back when generative image AIs first came into general awareness with Dalle-3 and Stable Diffusion and so forth, there was a fad of changing image alt text into deliberately misleading nonsense. Which, of course, was not great for the visually impaired back then either. It was ineffective and short lived, but it’s still pretty annoying seeing people proudly declaring their intent to make things deliberately difficult for people who rely on technology for this kind of stuff. So IMO worth pointing out.
Screen readers read text directly, the point of this is to be used in images, which screen readers don’t read anyway.
Facedeer is a bad faith troll and AI evangelist, in case anybody is wondering why he’s pretending to care about accessibility.
Ahh, that explains the willful ignorance.
By “bad faith troll and AI evangelist” XLE means “someone I disagree with about this topic, and therefore that I follow around obsessively accusing of being a troll.”
He’s really rather sad that way, I notice that every thread I’ve been in over the past few days with any relation to AI he’s been adding this comment to. Guess he noticed me again. At least he’s stopped calling me a literal bot or accusing me of being “from Reddit” as if that meant something nefarious.
My iPhone reads text from images. I wonder how it’d do with this?
You can take a screenshot or save the image directly. My iPhone reads the blurry text without issue, so this may be more related to LLMs in particular, or of the image is compressed before the analysis, the illusion is broken
Amazon Rekgnition struggles a little more but it’s still reading the blurry text instead of the lines
And if this sort of font became common (and actually kept working) then screen readers never would be able to read these. The point remains that accessibility is being sacrificed for the sake of some kind of general “anti-AI” movement.
There’s no way this will become common. Non-visually impaired people don’t want to read like that either.
Back when generative image AIs first came into general awareness with Dalle-3 and Stable Diffusion and so forth, there was a fad of changing image alt text into deliberately misleading nonsense. Which, of course, was not great for the visually impaired back then either. It was ineffective and short lived, but it’s still pretty annoying seeing people proudly declaring their intent to make things deliberately difficult for people who rely on technology for this kind of stuff. So IMO worth pointing out.