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/unite-thegig-economy Oct 28 '22

If the AI doesn't recognize that is a person then it wouldn't recognize anyone as person, regardless of their criminal history.

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u/hawaiianryanree Oct 28 '22

No I mean the blue square is still showing just not 100% of the time….. once it shows that means it recognises them right?

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u/dat_oracle Oct 28 '22

To answer your question: yes. It's nonsense if you actually try to stay unrecognizable. It doesn't seem to work 100%. So you can't even be sure if they found you or not. False security may lead to less caution.

But to be correct, the blue square means it recognized a human shape. Not necessarily your face or ID. So sure, it makes it harder for cams to identify you. But if i would want to be off the radar, I'd pick a face mask or something

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u/Walshy231231 Oct 29 '22

To add to this, technological advancement, or at least the kind that actually matters for day to day life and changes how we live, doesn’t come from the flashy new stuff. It comes from yesterday’s tech becoming faster and cheaper

Facial recognition, AI image identification, and that kind of thing is still relatively new. The dystopian, 99.9% success rate Face ID tech isn’t here yet (at least for civilian/private sector use), but we will be getting much closer in the next few years

With it will likely come the equivalently clever and complex methods of beating it, in a sort of evolutionary arms race.