“Companies have started incorporating “adversarial patterns” in their garments – carefully designed arrangements of shapes, colours and repeated motifs said to exploit weaknesses in some #ComputerVision systems.
The designers say advances in #computing have made it easier to incorporate such patterns into commercially viable garments. Experts caution that the effectiveness of the patterns depends on the #surveillance system and the conditions in which it is used, but #NickTidball, the co-founder of the clothing brand Vollebak, thinks “adversarial clothing” could be on the cusp of going mainstream.
“#AntiSurveillance feelings are so widespread that all it would take is for a single celebrity to wear one of these garments, currently popular in the #countercultural fashion world, to a high-profile event for it to take off,” he said.”
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