The Voynich Ninja

Apparently equally applicable to the Voynich manuscript, the King James Bible, La Chanson de Roland, La Divina Commedia, Njal's Saga, The Tales of Genji, The Tibetan Book of the Dead ...

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This forum doesn't seem to be well attended, I don't see many comments.

This isn't a solution. The author of the piece on voynich.net has not said anything about how or why the VMS was written. Just some dodgy statement about having used some self-created engine. Claims to have sent a full translation to the Beinecke library, but doesn't want to give it on his forum. The author hasn't been active on that forum. Just registered in order to submit his 'claim'.

This appears to be one of the claims we have been asked to be cautious about in You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. ( Generally about proposed solutions ).

I feel bad for the person at the Beinecke who has to deal with the AI-driven increase in this nonsense.

I also got yet another one. At least these people are kind enough to let us know that it comes out of an AI chat machine.

I do wonder if this new trend will at the same time reduce the more standard kind of flexible substitution cipher approaches.....

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I would call it "an esotheric solution"

Imagine some mystic guy putting his hand on a book written in an unknown language, getting some visions and telling you the meaning of the book. If you tell him that he didn't actually read the book he will tell you that the exact words are not important. He could sense the power of it, make the magic energy flow from the book to his hand and thus he could get the "true" meaning of the book.

I think all these guys who do VM solutions made with ChatGPT are the same. They may even realise that they are unable to give rational word by word translation that makes sense. But they seem to believe that some "magic" happens when they generate their ChatGPT solutions which validates their results.

By the way, have you heard a story about a woman who decided to get a divorce because ChatGPT told her that her husband had an affair? 
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She uploaded photos of her coffee to ChatGPT and told the chat to interpret it. And ChatGPT happily shared its hallucinations with her.

ChatGPT is the new oracle of the 21st century. You don't know how it exactly works but it seems very clever and very mysterious and besides computers don't make mistakes, right?