Wear Your Way Out Of AI Surveilance

Hackaday reports that German designer Simon Weckert has created a fabric meant to trick AI image recognition, causing the system to fail to identify the wearer as a person. The pattern uses saturated colors to target the algorithms, and the tests shown appear to work — though the wearer stands out to human eyes. Hackaday notes this isn't the first attempt to confound AI, and wonders how long it will stay effective as algorithms improve.

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