[shrubble]

So here is a question: what would happen if this process faced a person who was specifically hostile to it? Could you "trick" the process by intensely thinking of, for instance, a yellow ball while viewing a cat picture, as one example?

[keenmaster]

I assume the two would be discernible from each other in your brain data to a sufficiently advanced AI. One is your visual stream and one is your visual imagination. On top of that would be signatures of intention to deceive, which are also detectable in theory :)

[jojobas]

All your brainwaves are belong to us.

[rossant]

From the article:

> fMRI is extremely sensitive to movement and requires subjects to comply with the task: decoding is easily resisted by slightly moving one’s head or thinking about unrelated information (Tang et al., 2023)

[wiz21c]

So maybe that's why magicians are so good at illusion: as we think about what we expect to see, we don't process information of our eyes correctly...