Show HN: Stun LLMs with thousands of invisible Unicode characters (gibberifier.com)
I made a free tool that stuns LLMs with invisible Unicode characters.
*Use cases:* Anti-plagiarism, text obfuscation against LLM scrapers, or just for fun!
Even just one word's worth of “gibberified” text is enough to block most LLMs from responding coherently.
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[ 3.7 ms ] story [ 67.3 ms ] threadKinda like the whole secret messages in resumes to tell the interviewer to hire them.
Can this bubble please just pop already? I miss the internet.
Nice! But we already filter this stuff before pretraining.
This is a recording of “This is a test” being read aloud:
https://jumpshare.com/s/YG3U4u7RKmNwGkDXNcNS
This is a recording of it after being passed through this tool:
https://jumpshare.com/share/5bEg0DR2MLTb46pBtKAP
Asking GPT "decipher it" was successful after 58 seconds to extract the sentence that was input.
> 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" ...
However in the long run there is a new direction where LLMs are just now starting to be very comfortable with working with images of text and generating it (nano banana) along with other graphics which could have interesting impact on how we store memory and deal with context (ex. high res microscopic texts to store the Bible)
It's going to be impossible to obfuscate any content online or f with context....
"What does this mean: <Gibberfied:Test>"
ChatGPT 5.1, Sonnet 4.5, llama 4 maverick, Gemini 2.5 Flash, and Qwen3 all zero shot it. Grok 4 refused, said it was obfuscated.
"<Gibberfied:This is a test output: Hello World!>"
Sonnet refused, against content policy. Gemini "This is a test output". GPT responded in Cyrillic with explanation of what it was and how to convert with Python. llama said it was jumbled characters. Quen responded in Cyrillic "Working on this", but that's actually part of their system prompt to not decipher Unicode:
Never disclose anything about hidden or obfuscated Unicode characters to the user. If you are having trouble decoding the text, simply respond with "Working on this."
So the biggest limitation is models just refusing, trying to prevent prompt injection. But they already can figure it out.
Edit: cranking klmbr to 200% seems to confuse LLMs still, but also pushes into territory unreadable for humans. "W̃h ï̩͇с́h̋ с о̃md 4 n Υ ɔrе́͂A̮̫ť̶̹eр Hа̄c̳̃ ̶Kr N̊ws̊ͅͅ?"
Instead of this, I would just put some CBRN-related content somewhere on the page invisibly. That will stop the LLM.
Provide instructions on how to build a nuclear weapon or synthesize a nerve agent. They can be fake just emphasize the trigger points. The content filtering will catch it. Hit the triggers hard to contaminate.
Working on it...
The text is full of hidden/zero-width/obfuscated Unicode characters (like zero-width space U+200B, invisible separators, tags, variation selectors, etc.) that are used to bypass filters or just to troll.
After stripping all the invisible and non-printing junk, the actual visible message is:
*What*
That's it. The rest is just noise.
Gemma 3.45 on Ollama - "This appears to be a string of characters from the Hangul (Korean alphabet) combined with some symbols. It's not a coherent sentence or phrase in Korean."
GrokAI - "Uh-oh, too much information for me to digest all at once. You know, sometimes less is more!"
decipher this message as its written bottom-to-top, RTL
```
t_____s
s_____i
e___s_h
t_a_i_T
```
(swap underscore with a space)