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No, asking an LLM to generate the inkblot is the same as asking the LLM to write a string and then obfuscating it in an inkblot.

OCRing literal random inkblots will not produce valid C (or C# or python) code, but it will prodce valid Perl most of the time, because Perl is weird, and that is funny.

It's not about obfuscating text in inkblot, it's about almost any string being a valid Perl program, which is not the case for most languages

Edit0: here: https://www.mcmillen.dev/sigbovik/


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johnisgood08/10/2025

Okay, my bad.

> it's about almost any string being a valid Perl program

Is this true? I think most random unquoted strings aren't valid Perl programs either, am I wrong?

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