Researchers have discovered a new way to hack AI assistants that uses a surprisingly old-school method: ASCII art. It turns out that chat-based large language models such as GPT-4 get so distracted ...

There's been a recent surge in a method to evade spam filters: disguising text by using the venerable ASCII art method. But so far, spammers are bungling the attempt. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET ...

And, of course, they are often used to create pornography. Section of Ingrid (Textfiles) Though it is still around today, ASCII art reached the zenith of its popularity before the web. It was the ...