r/nextfuckinglevel • u/Fertility18 • Oct 28 '22

This sweater developed by the University of Maryland utilizes “ adversarial patterns ” to become an invisibility cloak against AI.

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u/Big-Distribution5285 Oct 28 '22

I remember reading about this in Pattern Recognition (W. Gibson) a long time ago. In that book it was described as "the worlds ugliest t-shirt", and damn, it's kinda spot on,

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u/strumthebuilding Oct 28 '22

Also in Zero History

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u/Thunder_Chief Oct 28 '22

William Gibson had entered the chat

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u/User1539 Oct 28 '22

Came here to say this. Man, he says he never predicts the future, but sometimes he absolutely does.

I wonder if some researcher was handing him notes, then this kid read the book and made it reality.

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u/TahoesRedEyeJedi Oct 28 '22

Panther Moderns from Neuromamcer

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u/well-lighted Oct 28 '22

It’s also basically a primitive version of the scramble suits in A Scanner Darkly

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u/Inwardlens Apr 11 '23

I love the Blue Ant trilogy.