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A hat that prevents facial recognition

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Re: A hat that prevents facial recognition

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Aren't these all pretty dependent on the systems you're trying to fool? Even with adversarial learning (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adversarial_machine_learning), if the system you're trying to hide from is different enough from the one you trained against, won't this not work well?

Although it does go back to the original, non-software meaning if the manufacturers create a _patch_ to update the hat.

Re: A hat that prevents facial recognition

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post #2

Aren't these all pretty dependent on the systems you're trying to fool? Even with adversarial learning ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adversarial_machine_learning ), if the system you're trying to hide from is different enough from the one you trained against, won't this not work well? Although it does go back to the original, non-software meaning if the manufacturers create a _patch_ to update the hat.

They do address that at the bottom of the kickstarter page: "This means the hats we make today may not work in the future."

Re: A hat that prevents facial recognition

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post #2

Aren't these all pretty dependent on the systems you're trying to fool? Even with adversarial learning ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adversarial_machine_learning ), if the system you're trying to hide from is different enough from the one you trained against, won't this not work well? Although it does go back to the original, non-software meaning if the manufacturers create a _patch_ to update the hat.

They do address that at the bottom of the kickstarter page: "This means the hats we make today may not work in the future."

Wouldn't work today, either.

Re: A hat that prevents facial recognition

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+1 for effort. I suspect that in the future we'll all have to don our Guy Fawkes masks before we head out into the half-deserted streets....

Or perhaps IR reflective face paint with a hat containing infrared LEDs in the brim. Everyone sees your face except CCDs.