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This optical illusion font was created to baffle AI, and it actually works (for now)
Ghost Font is an experimental anti-AI typography technique that hides text within moving dots, allowing humans to read the message through motion perception while AI models, which typically analyze videos frame by frame, fail to detect it. Created by AI researcher Eric Lu as a response to concerns about unauthorized AI content harvesting, the project has attracted significant attention after early tests showed major AI models could only identify a decoy message instead of the hidden text. While Ghost Font demonstrates an intriguing use of optical illusions to thwart current AI systems, its creator sees it as an experiment rather than a practical communication tool, and future AI advances may eventually overcome the technique.
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