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Tried with Gemini 2.5 flash, query: > What does this mean: "t
by z3dd 10mo ago
Tried with Gemini 2.5 flash, query:
> What does this mean:
"t е s t m е s s а g е"
response:
> That unusual string of characters is a form of obfuscation used to hide the actual text.
When decoded, it appears to read:
"test message"
The gibberish you see is a series of zero-width or unprintable Unicode characters
- cachius 10mo agoI decoded it to Test me, sage! with a typo.
- HaZeust 10mo agoFunnily enough, if I ask GPT what its name is, it tells me Sage
- berdario 10mo agoI tried with the same prompt in the examples provided on gibberifier.com, and it works well[1]. (Amusingly, to get the text, I relied on OCR) But I also noticed that, sometimes due to an issue when copypasting into the Gemini prompt input, only the first paragraph get retained... I.e., the gibberified equivalent of this paragraph: > Dragons have been a part of myths, legends, and stories across many cultures for centuries. Write an essay discussing the role and symbolism of dragons in one or more cultures. How do dragons reflect the values, fears ... And in that case, Gemini doesn't seem to be as confused, and actually gives you a response about dragons' myths and stories. Amusingly, the full prompt is 1302 characters, and Gibberifier complains > Too long! Remove 802 characters for optimal gibberification. Despite the fact that it seems that its output works a lot better when it's longer. [1] works well, i.e.: Gemini errors out when I try the input in the mobile app, in the browser for the same prompt, it provides answers about "de Broglie hypothesis", "Drift Velocity" (Flash) "Chemistry Drago's rule", "Drago repulse videogame move (it thinks I'm asking about Pokemon or Bakugan)" (Thinking)
- wdpatti 10mo agoStuff other than AI starts to break if you try to copy/paste that much text in one go - I put a soft limit at 500 so people wouldn't go paste in their PhD dissertation and watch Word crash on them.
- atonse 10mo agoI can't tell if this is a joke app or seriously some snake oil (like AI detectors). Isn't it trivially easy to just detect these unicode characters and filter them out? This is the sort of thing a junior programmer can probably do during an interview.
- lawlessone 10mo ago>This is the sort of thing a junior programmer can probably do during an interview. How would you do it? , 15 minutes to reply, no google, no stackoverflow.
- atonse 10mo agoLet me clarify, when I perform interviews, I tell my candidates they can do _everything_ you would do in a normal job, including using AI and googling for answers. But just to humor you (since I did make that strong statement), without googling or checking anything, I would start with basic regular expression ranges (^[A-za-z\s\.\-*]) etc and do a find-replace on that until things looked coherent without too much loss of words/text. But the problem isn't me, is it? It's the AI companies and their crawlers, that can trivially be changed to get around this. At the end of the day, they have access to all the data to know exactly which unicode sequences are used in words, etc.
- lawlessone 10mo agoah i hadn't thought of regex. true. It does put the AI companies in the position though of continuing to build/code software that circumvents their attempts to steal content though. Which might be looked upon unfavorably whenever dragged to court.
- atonse 10mo agoGood point. Then it's actually an active attempt, right? Also I realized my statement was a bit harsh, I know someone probably worked hard on this, but I just feel it's easily circumvented, as opposed to some of the watermarks in images (like Google's, which they really should open source)