@bfgreen that is the business side of this project. But personally I am just excited that someone who knows what they are talking about is interested in this project. This was a labor of love and if I can make other people feel the excitement I had in creating it that’s a win. If this turns out to stump people it will be very validating though maybe a little unexpected. I think this is pretty complex, but I have no professional credentials to base that on and AI is pretty advanced with patterns.

@bfgreen so I created this cipher and built the project into two books that are for sale. This block of code I am sharing is a taste of the encryption. I guess in a perfect world, deciphering this takes long enough and gets enough people interested in the project to buy the books so they can have all of the clues. If you make really quick work of this and it is of no significance I guess I can still hope that others may find interest in trying to solve it themselves.

@bfgreen whoa, cool! I am grateful that we crossed paths. Congrats on your success, it always feels nice when people connect with our work.

I have been trying to find the right community for this project. I put so much effort into it and I think it’s really cool, but it is kind of unique and a little hard to fully explain to people.

@bfgreen cool! I’ll check it out!

@bfgreen 🙌🙌🙌 you rock!

@bfgreen I’ll take a look. Not sure how I would fair at solving a cipher, but I can tie up logical knots and make simple concepts more complex. I am not classically trained as a cryptographer, though. I am just an artist who knows some basic programming, and you may make quick work of this.

@bfgreen that is so great to hear! Let me know how you get on! This is exciting!

@bfgreen awesome! Thank you!

@KarenSohne this is all based around two books I wrote, one called “my magnum opus” which is a story encrypted in this secret code. The other is called “Bell’s Codex” which is a thriller novel about people trying to solve it. But the puzzle is real and all the clues for solving it are in the novel! This is literally a plot device for a story that is fun to read even if you aren’t interested in solving the cipher. Links here: http://damienkanerigden.com/writing

@bfgreen I read your website a bit, seems like you are the right kind of person to have noticed this project, haha. There is more info about it here if you are curious: https://www.reddit.com/r/OpusMercenaries

@bfgreen I haven’t heard of that! It says it closed, can you tell me more about?

@KarenSohne thank you! I designed this alphabet and made the font myself! It is in English and I am happy to tell people that!

Here’s a higher res version of my cipher! It has been seen 125k times on the chatGPT subreddit and no one’s solved it yet. A small artist fighting back against AI. #ai #chatgpt #cipher #coso #cosonauts

@Amaryllis haha I totally get it. But the description was nice.

This is what ChatGPT thinks of my bells codex font apparently! As much as I hate AI this description kind of makes me happy. #chatgpt #coso

@corlin @realJanet @Alfred not until the puzzle is solved.

@realJanet @Alfred @corlin no text. Have to work from the image.

@corlin It’s encrypted using the same cipher I used for bells codex, yeah. Except the solution to this one isn’t posted anywhere.

I wonder if AI could decode this encrypted block of text I made. #coso #cosonauts #AI

@corlin sounds good. Yeah querying agents would have been a waste of time for this book. It is so different no one would ever take a chance on it. If you do end up coming across copies I hope you enjoy it.