Propagators of the false right-wing conspiracy theory QAnon took interest after “Q”—the anonymous leader who regularly posts nonsensical “clues” for followers—linked to several news articles about the tool, including WIRED’s. Rosetta works by detecting the words in an image and then feeding them through a neural network that parses what they say. The QAnon conspiracy theorists created memes and videos with deliberately obscured fonts, wonky text, or backwards writing, which they believe might trick Rosetta or disrupt this process. Many of the altered memes were first spotted on 8chan by Shoshana Wodinsky, an intern at NBC News.

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