Ghost Font: A font that humans can read but AI cannot(mixfont.com)
217 points by justswim 1 day ago | 158 comments
tl;dr: Ghost Font encodes text into the motion of dots in a video—readable to humans watching it play, but indistinguishable from background noise in any single frame, defeating screenshot-based OCR and current multimodal AI models like GPT and Claude. It also embeds a decoy message to fool agents with local code execution that might analyze dot motion directly. The creator sees potential applications in CAPTCHAs and as a benchmark for video-native AI perception, and plans to open-source the generator.
HN Discussion:
  • AI can already decode Ghost Font with simple prompting or temporal analysis techniques
  • The technique is algorithmically crackable with basic frame differencing or compression analysis
  • Humans struggle to read it too, questioning its practical usefulness
  • The underlying text is trivially accessible via the DOM, defeating the security premise
  • ~Interesting research concept even if imperfect, with related prior art in flickering illusions