"Garbled text" (e.g., random symbols like "#@!%", distorted characters, or unreadable glyphs) in AI-generated images typically occurs when the AI model attempts to simulate text-like shapes without understanding real language, or when non-Latin scripts are misrendered due to font or encoding limitations. This is a known limitation of current diffusion-based image generators—they can depict text visually but cannot reliably generate correct, readable text.
As of December 2025, AI Design (AI image generation) is available on:
- ✅ CapCut Online
- ✅ CapCut Desktop (v7.7.0+)
- ❌ CapCut Mobile App – No user-accessible AI image generation feature
Below are platform-specific explanations and step-by-step guidance:
✅ CapCut Online
Understand that AI cannot reliably generate real text
Even if your prompt includes phrases like "a poster that says 'Happy Birthday'," the AI will often produce fake, distorted, or garbled letterforms because it treats text as visual texture, not semantic content.
Avoid prompting for specific words or sentences
Instead of:
"A storefront with a sign that reads 'CAFE OPEN'"
Use:
"A cozy café storefront with a decorative sign, no readable text"
If you need real text, add it after generation
Use CapCut's built-in Text tool to overlay clean, editable, and properly encoded text on top of the AI-generated background.
Check browser language and encoding settings
In rare cases, browser-level encoding issues (e.g., non-UTF-8) may affect how placeholder text is displayed in previews—but this does not affect the final image, as AI doesn't use real fonts.
📍 Note: Garbled text in AI design is a model-level limitation, not a bug. It happens across all platforms using diffusion models.
✅ CapCut Desktop (Windows / macOS)
Recognize that text in AI design is decorative only
The AI generator in Desktop uses the same underlying technology as Web—it cannot produce accurate, machine-readable, or linguistically correct text.
Refrain from including exact phrases in your prompts
Prompts like "a book titled 'The Future'" will likely yield covers with nonsensical glyphs resembling letters but not forming real words.
Use AI for backgrounds or abstract designs—add real text manually
📍 After generating an image, go to the Text panel, click "Add Text," and type your message using CapCut's native text engine (which supports Unicode, emojis, and multiple languages correctly).
If you're using Image-to-Image with a sketch containing text
Be aware that the AI may try to "interpret" scribbled lines as text and output garbled symbols. To avoid this, erase or mask any handwritten text in your input image before generation.
📍 Tip: CapCut Desktop's text tools support Chinese, Arabic, Cyrillic, Japanese, Korean, and more—always use them instead of relying on AI to "write" for you.
❌ CapCut Mobile App (iOS / Android)
As of December 2025, the Mobile app does not offer an AI Design (text-to-image) feature that allows users to generate custom images from prompts.
📍 Tip: In such cases, the issue is unrelated to AI Design and should be resolved by replacing the text layer with a standard CapCut font.
🔑 Best Practices to Avoid Garbled Text
- Never rely on AI to generate readable text—it's fundamentally unsupported in current image diffusion models.
- Use AI for visuals only: backgrounds, textures, scenes, objects.
- Add all real text afterward using CapCut's native text editor (available on all platforms).
- For multilingual content, always type directly in CapCut—its text engine fully supports Unicode and complex scripts.
While future AI models may improve text rendering, today's best practice remains: let AI create the scene, and you add the words.