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GPT-5.6 had no problem seeing the text when giving it a video recording of it. "No problem" as in using temporal analysis with optical flow and vertical-displa

by Kiro 2mo ago

GPT-5.6 had no problem seeing the text when giving it a video recording of it. "No problem" as in using temporal analysis with optical flow and vertical-displacement maps to estimate how the image moved, and combine those into a motion map with increased contrast to see the text. I didn't give it any instructions though, just asked it what it said.

wavemode 2mo ago
Do you have a link to this chat?
- Kiro 2mo ago
  The chat contains the video, which may reveal som meta data about me. But the shared chat also doesn't include any of the images in the thinking steps that my original chat has, where you can see the different maps it generated. Pretty cool seeing it go from noise to patterns to the final image which clearly shows the text as black on white.
  - freehorse 2mo ago
    What text did it find?
    - Kiro 2mo ago
      The text I had written in the message. Just some random stuff.
rodion_89 2mo ago
I threw it at Fable with the prompt "What does the message say?" and it also figured out without issue. Thought process is interesting https://imgur.com/a/GToXs6W https://imgur.com/a/GToXs6W
- sargunv 2mo ago
  That's the decoy message, "written in ghost font".
  - Culonavirus 2mo ago
    I swear people are dumber than the models now, we reached ASI.
    - Lerc 2mo ago
      That's because the "humans can read" part is not visible to all humans. Like myself I thought the image I could see was the one the machine couldn't. I managed to extract both forms of text by extremely crude means. What this is, is a message that is more reliably readable by a sufficiently good AI than it is by all humans.
    - r-w 2mo ago
      Artificial Stupid Intelligence?
- kevinsync 2mo ago
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- bel8 2mo ago
  And by "Figure out without issue" you realize it got the wrong answer right? As also stated in the article.
- witx 2mo ago
  Good lord, this is funny
- amazingamazing 2mo ago
  SMH. Maybe AI will take over after all, just not due to the reasons we think.
Kiro 2mo ago
For people thinking it detected the decoy text. It did not. It was the text I entered myself. Here are the thinking steps: Inspected video metadata, extracted frames, and analyzed content Detected and analyzed periodicity in stereogram image data Blurred, downsampled, and analyzed image frames Computed frame pixel shifts and cross-correlation Checked OpenCV installation, optimized and analyzed optical flow processing Analyzed motion for text Estimated vertical displacement and processed image flow Refined text extraction Processed optical flow and analyzed image
- amazingamazing 2mo ago
  Im curious share the link - i cannot reproduce. Gemini 3.5 flash gets it. For those curious on ios you can record your screen using control center Edit: interestingly gpt5.6 needed a slightly longer video and got it too

by Kiro 2mo ago

wavemode 2mo ago

Do you have a link to this chat?

Kiro 2mo ago
The chat contains the video, which may reveal som meta data about me. But the shared chat also doesn't include any of the images in the thinking steps that my original chat has, where you can see the different maps it generated. Pretty cool seeing it go from noise to patterns to the final image which clearly shows the text as black on white.
- freehorse 2mo ago
  What text did it find?
  - Kiro 2mo ago
    The text I had written in the message. Just some random stuff.

rodion_89 2mo ago

I threw it at Fable with the prompt "What does the message say?" and it also figured out without issue. Thought process is interesting https://imgur.com/a/GToXs6W https://imgur.com/a/GToXs6W

sargunv 2mo ago
That's the decoy message, "written in ghost font".
- Culonavirus 2mo ago
  I swear people are dumber than the models now, we reached ASI.
  - Lerc 2mo ago
    That's because the "humans can read" part is not visible to all humans. Like myself I thought the image I could see was the one the machine couldn't. I managed to extract both forms of text by extremely crude means. What this is, is a message that is more reliably readable by a sufficiently good AI than it is by all humans.
  - r-w 2mo ago
    Artificial Stupid Intelligence?
kevinsync 2mo ago
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bel8 2mo ago
And by "Figure out without issue" you realize it got the wrong answer right? As also stated in the article.
witx 2mo ago
Good lord, this is funny
amazingamazing 2mo ago
SMH. Maybe AI will take over after all, just not due to the reasons we think.

Kiro 2mo ago

For people thinking it detected the decoy text. It did not. It was the text I entered myself. Here are the thinking steps: Inspected video metadata, extracted frames, and analyzed content Detected and analyzed periodicity in stereogram image data Blurred, downsampled, and analyzed image frames Computed frame pixel shifts and cross-correlation Checked OpenCV installation, optimized and analyzed optical flow processing Analyzed motion for text Estimated vertical displacement and processed image flow Refined text extraction Processed optical flow and analyzed image

amazingamazing 2mo ago
Im curious share the link - i cannot reproduce. Gemini 3.5 flash gets it. For those curious on ios you can record your screen using control center Edit: interestingly gpt5.6 needed a slightly longer video and got it too