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AI security cameras are everywhere. Can these garments scramble them all?

fastcompany.com · 2hShare

The rise of public surveillance has also led to the rise of an adversarial counterpart : fashion designed to confuse AI security cameras. It’s designed to baffle the senses of Axon body cams, Flock cameras, and other tools of mass surveillance through tricks like patterns that AI sensors confuse for animals, objects, or reflective fabric. A new limited-edition, crowdfunded clothing brand promises garments with patterns good enough to scramble 11 computer vision models. It’s called noRecognition. [Image: courtesy noRecognition] Bill Swearingen, a former chief intelligence officer and founder of the monthly Kansas City security meetup SecKC, created noRecognition after running 31.7 million digital tests to determine what kinds of patterns confuse multiple models at once, with the goal of creating a universal adversarial camouflage. He used AI throughout the process, including building and training a model, using that model to generate and test adversarial pattern geometry, and determinin

First report: This ‘adversarial’ pattern can prevent surveillance cameras from detecting you — techcrunch.com, 2d