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[โ€“] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)
  • receive text over the network

  • render text into pixels

  • mangle pixels through some convoluted Fourier transform to decrease quality

  • run even more complex pattern matching algorithm on mangled pixels to guess text represented

Can we add AI somewhere down that line?

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

AI is often used to make the last step produce text that is closer to English. Whether that helps very much depends.