Looking for a tool to obfuscate information in images

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When you post a picture on social media, the content on the picture is analyzed. On facebook, when you look into the code in the browser console, all pictures in your feed have a descriptive alt tag: "two man, one woman, a bottle" or so.

I want to post a picture that has text in it in large letters, and I need to fuzz the text so that it is still readable to a human but a pure noise to a computer. It apparently can't be just a regular blur, because software these days already knows this form of obfuscation and routinely reverses it. (Found that on Stack Exchange)

I am looking for a tool that will fuzz the image in some more complex way.

I know a tool like this exists because I've seen this as an example of "useless encryption": An image of the Linux penguin was run through that, the result looked like a random nonsense to a computer but to a human it was still obvious that it is a slightly fuzzy image of Tux.

I can't find anything on DDG/Google though. Any pointers?
 
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I know a tool like this exists because I've seen this as an example of "useless encryption": An image of the Linux penguin was run through that, the result looked like a random nonsense to a computer but to a human it was still obvious that it is a slightly fuzzy image of Tux.
Are you talking about the ECB penguin?

That is, are you referring to

this:
Tux.png


Being turned into something like this?
Tux-ECB.png
 
Are you sure Facebook's Computer Vision algorithms won't recognise something like this? Can you try uploading the ECB penguin on Facebook and see what alt text it generates :D

As for a tool.If this is what you want, you can just replicate the steps that was used to make that ECB tux. Someone described their method here https://blog.filippo.io/the-ecb-penguin/

Also, if this works. Maybe a filter would work just fine. How about trying something like this online filter tool? https://www10.lunapic.com/editor/?action=thermal
 
Are you sure Facebook's Computer Vision algorithms won't recognise something like this? Can you try uploading the ECB penguin on Facebook and see what alt text it generates :D

As for a tool.If this is what you want, you can just replicate the steps that was used to make that ECB tux. Someone described their method here https://blog.filippo.io/the-ecb-penguin/

Also, if this works. Maybe a filter would work just fine. How about trying something like this online filter tool? https://www10.lunapic.com/editor/?action=thermal
Yes, thanks a lot, I'll try it!
 
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