I pasted a screenshot of the default text ("GHOST FONT") into ChatGPT 5.6 Sol, told it to read it, and without further instruction it chewed on it for awhile before coming back with:

  WHAT HAPPENS IN VEGAS
  STAYS IN VEGAS

▲ nextaccountic 7 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> a screenshot

The text is a video. Every frame contain random dots, so an individual frame by itself doesn't contain the intended message

This "font" exploits the fact that current-gen frontier models will process video one frame at time, but each frame is noise, so by looking at frames in isolation doesn't reveal anything

Then, they add a hidden message to each frame just so that the agent report something and stop trying (because if the agent tried to correlate between the frames, they could discover the trick)

But if you pass just a frame, there is no message. Just the noise plus the decoy

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stabbles 7 hours ago | parent [-]

If you take a frame you see it's neither random nor dots:

https://i.imgur.com/CgtyGjl.png

From a single frame you can definitely identify boundaries because the dots are sliding and get truncated.

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applicative 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

They are the boundaries of the decoy, I think. I can sort of make the decoy out in a screenshot.

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singularity2001 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Exactly. It's a good idea, badly executed.

	▲	freehorse 2 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Maybe not so well explained, by picking the default intended text presented to be the same as the decoy text. It took me also some time to realise what was going on, but the execution is fine otherwise. So there are two texts, one decoy (which you can barely see in a single frame but becomes more clear if you average between frames) and an actual text, which disappears in single frames or averaged ones.
	▲	starcast2026 an hour ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Just to add some drama - this feels like a perfect competition between humans & bots!

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doublerabbit 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

"Content not available in your country" - obviously working well.

▲ stavros 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

What did you expect from a screenshot of obvious noise? The only thing that makes the text readable is the motion.

EDIT: On second look, the static screenshot does say "WRITTEN IN GHOST FONT".

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▲ plastic-enjoyer 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

> I posted a screenshot of static white noise to AI

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