Clothing line featuring an adversarial patch to ward off AI recog systems:

https://petapixel.com/2023/01/20/this-clothing-line-tricks-ai-cameras-without-covering-your-face/

This Clothing Line Tricks AI Cameras Without Covering Your Face

An AI camera may think you're a zebra.

PetaPixel

Assuming you can spend $150 on just the T-shirt, of course 🤨

I think I could hand-paint a reasonable replica for the time it would take to earn the purchase prices!

https://www.capable.design/products/ai-camo-t-shirt

AI CAMO T-SHIRT

@_L1vY_ The people selling these tshirts are what I would call "capitalist assholes"
@_L1vY_ " ... by choosing which side to wear, you can decide whether or not to protect yourself from facial recognition."
You can decide not to by not buying the tshirt. Much cheaper.

@[email protected] as much as I love this, it’s just so ironic. Here’s a company pushing hard against mass surveillance. And the article ends:
“More information about Cap_able can be found on their website, Instagram, Facebook, and YouTube channel.”

I get it. But it is still ironic.

@paco I assume, first and foremost, clothing sales 🤷🏻‍♀️
@_L1vY_ @paco I'm not sure if I have the bandwidth to understand and make my own adversarial patch, but I am intrigued.
I appreciate that someone took the time to share how to do it.
https://www.skyld.io/how-to-build-an-adversarial-patch
How to Build an Adversarial Patch?

Create adversarial patches on YOLOv5 using PGD and ART. Fool object detectors with code and test your model’s robustness.

@flowerpot @_L1vY_ @paco Could talented knitters make clothes with adversarial patches that match specific politicians ?

@_L1vY_

They should include a free tin-foil hat with every purchase.

@_L1vY_

Any reason why is the average tie dye t-shirt wouldn't work?

Or busy Hawaiian print?

@NilaJones These have specific AI identification patterns embedded within the colorful graphics.

@_L1vY_

Oh I thought it was just the visual clutter

@_L1vY_ I don't understand how this is supposed to help, just like how earlier things that effectively erased your face were supposed to help.

If there's suddenly a zebra wandering around in public that's going to trigger MORE surveillance on you, not less, surely?

@ZDL The trade-off is whether you're attracting human attention or machine recog attention, so pick your poison I suppose.

@_L1vY_ @ZDL

I've been wondering if it's possible to develop a makeup that is invisible to the human eye but opaque to machine vision. So you could put invisible stripes all over your face.

I wonder how zinc laden sunscreen looks, for instance.

@_L1vY_ @ZDL

And maybe something similar in the weave of clothes.

@springdiesel @_L1vY_ @ZDL people have tried. At one point, a modality did work,but you had to do a Bowie level makeup of stripes and blobs. Subsequently the recognition software ignored surface and went for bone structure. As we adapt, so do they.

That said, I fail to see how this would stop facial recognition. On a system where it automatically discounted non human, maybe...but that’s not how most surveillance cameras work. The scan specific areas, starting with face...so...I dunno, I’m gonna need to see the specs before I believe this.

@_L1vY_ I quite liked these until I saw the price 😲
@staringatclouds Right? It looks like a DIY project now 😂

@_L1vY_

I love most of these patterns just for themselves, but they are So expensive!
And that's before tarrifs.
So, it's a pass.

@_L1vY_ nice! To ba only the rich folks get to doge face I'd with this .. where's that $10 Ai confusion t-shirt
@sam I have at times seen some on Etsy for under $20 from individual sellers!
@_L1vY_ Bought glasses from Zenni optical recently, and they offered an IR reflecting anti facial recognition coating to glasses as an option. I don’t know how well it works. If I didn’t live in Vermont it might be tempting.
@_L1vY_ The future Max Headroom promised.
@_L1vY_ that's 3 years ago, I'm not sure if that still works well
@thibaultmol Me neither 🤷‍♀️