DeepSeek V4.1 Flash fails image hidden-message puzzle after 70+ steps, rivals solve it with hints
teortaxesTex · x · 2026-10-22
X user teortaxesTex shares screenshots of a hidden-message-in-image test: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash (High) ran 70+ steps — checking metadata, LSB steganography, high-pass filters, even mapping star centroids to a 5-pixel grid — but never recognized the stars formed a figure, and the run finally errored out on a 48-image-per-request limit. The author says it "fails without handholding," while Fable and Astra both solve it with some prodding. The sessions burned 7M tokens at 98% cache hit.
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