Mathias Bynens did, at least. He recently noticed that Facebook and Instagram automatically turn many public photos into ASCII art just by adding a file extension to the end of the web link ...

University researchers have developed a way to "jailbreak" large language models like Chat-GPT using old-school ASCII art. The technique, aptly named "ArtPrompt," involves crafting an ASCII art ...

ASCII art. ASCII was created during the early days of printers when the printers were unable to handle graphics. ASCII art are images that have been pieced together from 95 printable characters in ...

This new AI jailbreaking method leverages ASCII art, a form of representation using characters, to mask trigger words that are typically censored by the AI’s safety protocols. Researchers from ...

MSCHF’s latest venture will broadcast an ASCII version of a new full-length movie every day. MSCHF’s latest venture will broadcast an ASCII version of a new full-length movie every day.

Back in the day (way back — remember, I’m an old geek), computers, and even many printers, could only display text — no graphics ... beyond mere words, and ASCII art was born.

That doesn’t mean we don’t get our share of just-for-funsies projects, of course, which certainly describes this online 3D ASCII art generator. But wait — maybe that’s not quite right.

Each location is a separate text file to open in Notepad, showing the current state of the game, telling the story with text and ASCII art ... he even added animations to the ASCII graphics ...

To print ASCII art, of course! It might not be practical ... For one, it's painfully slow—more so than a dot matrix printer. It also can't be used to do any programming, because it lacks ...

Roguelike games have grown in popularity over the 40 years the genre has existed, even though they implement ideas that might seem anathema to popular gaming: extreme randomness, ASCII graphics ...