Frontier LLMs are now capable of generating artistic images using SVG. We ask – if these LLMs had to hide a message in an image – how would they do so? And if they hid such messages, could they be successfully decoded?

We show interesting results from testing Fable 5.1 on these questions, and briefly compare with GPT-6 Astra on the same task.

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/WHEQps5PK8LrrcTAb/how-does-fable-5-1-hide-messages-in-images