Article URL: https://www.mixfont.com/ghost-font Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48870381 Points: 121 # Comments: 97

An anti-AI font that can be read by humans but not leading AI models. Type your text below, then download and share the video clip containing your message. Ghost Font is an anti-AI font that writes a message using motion. Using a combination of motion, video, noise, and decoys, it's a unique way to share a message with other real humans. I suppose technically, it's not a font in the traditional sense of a TTF font file. But, Ghost Font is an experiment of a way to graphically communicate in writing in a format that AI cannot easily understand. While it's not as legible as regular text, the letters are still immediately readable to a human eye, but even leading AI models can't decipher it easily. Videos generated with Ghost Font were then passed to leading AI models like Claude Fable and GPT Sol 5.6 Ultra. Even these recent agents, with the ability to code, struggled to decode the moving message until prompted with the exact technique to look for. The playground above is just a prototype of this concept. Type a few words and the letters appear but only because the motion of the dots is visible to a human eye. When the video is paused, the static dots blend together, and it becomes impossible to tell just from looking at a single frame what message is embedded in the image. That means that screenshotting the page won't reveal the message. This experiment works locally—type the message and preview it live, or download the video to share and test it out yourself. The data is not shared or sent to any server. In 2013, designer Sang Mun released a font called ZXX. It was a typeface with four fonts designed to be readable by humans but not by optical character recognition (OCR) software. The letters were camouflaged with noise, crossed out, and buried under false marks. At the time, this font was deemed "surveillance-proof"—but fast forward to today, and modern AI agents can easily read text rendered in ZXX. While this might have defeated OCR software in 2013, modern AI models can read the text in ZXX pretty easily. I copied this image into ChatGPT 5.5 on Instant mode, and it was still able to get the words including some small details as well in a single prompt: