Teaching AI to Read the Hidden Text That Humans Can See

One of the AI fads that flared up and burned out pretty quickly around 2-3 years ago was using Vision-Language Models (VLMs) to embed cryptic text and 'latent images' into apparently innocuous generated pictures: It's a kind of Trompe-l'œil effect-on-demand, and came to maximum prominence via the open source QR Code Monster ControlNet framework. Once enough people have seen this at work, there isn't really anywhere one can go with the technique, except to use it as a form of practical…

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