Also, I was curious about whether this would also work with images. So I chopped an image of a bird (a night heron) on a boat in my own collection (so, not in GPT-4's training data) into squares and randomly rearranged them, then tried to get ChatGPT-4 to interpret it. It doesn't work. I got this:
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The image you've uploaded appears to be a composite of several smaller images that are cut and arranged in a grid-like pattern. This collage-like arrangement makes it difficult to discern a clear, singular subject. However, I can identify fragments of what seems to be a bird—possibly a magpie or some type of corvid—due to the black and white plumage. There are also elements that look like parts of a silver car, like a side mirror, and segments of wooden structures that could be parts of a bench or a deck.
The way the images are scrambled resembles a puzzle, where each piece needs to be placed correctly to form a coherent whole. This type of image could be used as a challenge to reconstruct the original picture, requiring the viewer to mentally rotate and arrange the pieces.
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Maybe a different approach to scrambling an image would work.