If I wanted my governments surveillance camera system to improve more quickly I'd confront it with some challenging training data by making an exploit public and available for everyone :)
Isn’t that very expensive?
Is their goal letting people avoid facial recognition, or is that just a marketing tactic and their goal is to maximize profits?
> The algorithm on the textile hinders the object recognition software’s capabilities, causing it to not recognize the person wearing this garment. Instead, it recognizes the textile as nothing, a “zebra”, or a “giraffe”.
That’s just inaccurate; it would be more accurate to say: the pattern on the textile may cause some algorithms (which ones? how often?) to misbehave.
But maybe it's just me…
I’m pretty sure it’s going to fine your face just fine
[0] “Clothing designed to confuse facial recognition software”
> Cap_able offers a high-tech product that opens the debate on issues of our present that will shape our future. Cap_able wants to have an impact on society, creating awareness on contemporary issues through highly innovative design products from a technological and ethical point of view. [and even more of this]
Ok, ok, but what… is… it…?
Surveillance today is a joke compared to surveillance tomorrow.
Also I believe this will trick the classifier into thinking it's for example an elephant, not that there's nothing there.
Edit: Maybe I see the cause of confusion. The videos show “person” detection, but the way these systems distinguish people from other objects is by faces. As far as I know cars don’t do that, they just detect objects and don’t care about faces, so it shouldn’t be an issue.
The more advanced systems mark those people as persons of interest.[2] Then "appearance search" tracks them.[3]
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRF5qSrmqEM
[2] https://www.avigilon.com/products/ai-video-analytics/self-le...
[3] https://www.avigilon.com/products/ai-video-analytics/appeara...
Oh fuck off. Also whoever made that website should go to jail.
This project has been posted nearly everywhere in the last 1-2 years, they made a kickstarter asking (I believe) for US$ 5,000, and they got US$ 5,306 by 36 backers:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/capable-design/manifest...
It was the thesis of the designer at the university, later joined by her sister as a marketer, she seemingly made a very good work at marketing, though thw whole stuff still looks more like an art project than anything else.
This is a really cool approach: It looks like slightly flashy but still "normal"-ish clothing, and likely actually works (by confusing the AI into thinking you're e.g. a dog).
It's terrifying that they considered it necessary to get a legal opinion to state that yes, it's legal to distribute and wear this.
Which is expressly contradictive of their "mission".
Unrelated: These prices are insane.
I don't know how this technology works. Is it not possible to train a system to say "human face" or not without accidental identifications of non-humans?
Edit: (And thus not be fooled by this?)
Another issue -- it may target specific soft/hardware combinations, but will not confuse all of them. It will probably not work against color-agnostic IR or ToF/depth cameras.
I wouldn't put it like this. It's a niche product only a tiny number of people are interested in, most of them with moderate to high incomes. Of course they're going to price it like this.
Anything that's liable to be mass purchased will also be mass produced at very thin margins - which in this case means more or less the same margins as ordinary clothing. tl;dr: if there was real demand, they'd be just a bit more expensive than ordinary clothes.
This clothing looks like it might be designed to confuse the face detection step.
Since the birth of civilization there have been rules, and people that try to break the rules. This is how it is meant to be. I welcome the future arms race between the tech priests of the AI-powered hell^Hworld, and the people that refuse to conform and do not want to be controlled by machines.
Sadly, more and more people forget this site is called Hacker News, and it is rapidly getting overwhelmed by the LLM and AI fanatics.
(This is my Saturday morning creative writing assignment. Don't read too much into it. But still, long live the struggle against AI.)
