Also: I tested ChatGPT Images 2.0 vs. Gemini Nano Banana to see which is better - this model wins

There's a lot going on here. To help put it in perspective, we're going to travel all the way back to 440 BC and one dude's bad hair day.

Steganography is the practice of embedding cryptographic information in plain sight, basically using techniques to conceal messages in such a way that the cryptographic intent of the messages is not immediately apparent. In other words, knowing someone or something is carrying a code is halfway to cracking the code.

According to modern research, in the fifth century BCE, Herodotus of Halicarnassus, writing in the books Terpsichore and Polymnia of his nine-book Histories, tells the story of how, "Around 440 B.C. Histiæus shaved the head of his most trusted [assistant] and tattooed it with a message which disappeared after the hair had regrown. The purpose was to instigate a revolt against the Persians." Apparently, this technique was used as recently as World War II.