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I had a friendly conversation with a GM colleague here, and suddenly an error occurred and the words transformed into some sort of nonsensical signs instead of the letters. I have never encountered anything like that before. What could I do to transform the nonsense back into normal text? Thank you in advance for a good piece of advice!

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I received a similar message from Chess.com:

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I believe it is about detection of cheating as I have been refunded rating, however I do not know.
I asked ChatGPT but it told me it was unreadable and could not be translated to human language. Said it was Binary/ASCII letters.

It is probably just a bug and I hope it is sorted soon.
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Sorted now (for me)
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Maybe worth report as a bug just incase

https://support.chess.com/en/articles/8583752-how-do-i-report-a-bug-or-make-a-suggestion