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Ghost Font: A message for the humans still in the room

Eric Lu hides words in moving dots, with a little mischief for the machines trying to read along.

Work by Eric Lu × Mixfont1 min readEdited by Daniel Bnaya
The Ghost Font page on Mixfont: the title set large in a blocky pixel typeface, a line of text below it offering an anti-AI font that humans can read, and under that the generator's wide field of scattered black dots, which holds no readable words while it is still
Ghost Font by Eric Lu × Mixfont

The dots move, and a message appears. Pause them and the letters dissolve into noise. Ghost Font asks you to read something that only exists while it is moving.

Eric Lu's Mixfont experiment lets you type a message and download it as a video. Lu tested clips against AI models, adding decoy text to lead them astray. His results describe models struggling until given more specific help; the game is making a message difficult to decode.

Ghost Font by Eric Lu × Mixfont
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