A Vividly Patterned Digital Camouflage Shirt Designed to Confuse AI Detection Systems
Digital artist Simon Weckert created vividly patterned shirts designed to confuse AI person-detection systems and make wearers harder for them to recognize. Weckert calls this illusory style Digital Camouflage because it disrupts algorithms with an “adversarial pattern” they can’t recognize.
At first glance it reads as clothing with an abstract, almost hypnotic pattern. …It combines two strategies – distraction and confidence suppression: The pattern draws the algorithm’s attention while simultaneously lowering its confidence score for the person wearing it.
Weckert designed and tested the garments in real-world settings, though he emphasizes that Digital Camouflage is an art project rather than a security product.
In fact, the textile is engineered to confuse the object-recognition algorithms used in surveillance—the class of technology now switching on at Berlin’s Kottbusser Tor, and already humming on streets from London to Los Angeles. …DIGITAL CAMOUFLAGE is an art project – not a security product.
