Now make it reflect like the Laughing Man icon from Ghost in the Shell

https://ghostintheshell.fandom.com/wiki/Laughing_Man

So a criminals tool great

It might make your face hard to see but if you're the only one wearing this then you're now super easy to track. Which means I can track you back to your vehicle or where you turned the lights on and see your face or where you came from or where you went.

This used to work incredibly well with smartphone cameras, but I believe they've corrected algorithms some years before, and it doesn't wipe it out completely like it used to. Not sure about infrared specific cameras though.

As security I would just rewatch videos of the previous week/month to find you without the LED strobe turned on. Those security systems have 2/4/8x speeds so it would be really fast to check.

No criminal would use this because it calls attention to you.

Disagree, I worked in Security, when doing break ins it will be loved by crims as they will know it further helps hide their face. Hoodies draw attention and concern when worn and it does not fit the weather but crims do it to hide hair colour etc.. they wear sunglasses when not needed unless to hide facial features. If I was going to break into a factory, this would be what I wore now

Yep. And that’s a job for AI in big systems (say at a Walmart or federal building)

This is a serious question, you would watch weeks/months of video looking for one person? How would you be able to identify the person wearing this hoodie from another time they were not wearing it?

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You ask your tech to "enhance the pixels" and use an algorithm to fill in the missing data. Wait, show me what's behind the car in this photo, then zoom up on the reflection off the of the store window. There he is! Get a close up of the wrist - that tattoo is only worn by shot callers in the Sinaloa cartel. This has Hector Garza written all over it! Testicular, get me Boarder Patrol on the phone, we're going to need a joint task force!

So, you appear as a great big attention grabbing blob moving through the CCTV system. How useful.

If I was going to do anything dodgy I'd get someone else to walk near me in this thing confident that all security eyes are on him.

you can read an article about a Reddit post, or just go to the reddit post:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Cyberpunk/comments/117d897/i_designed_a_hoodie_that_makes_you_unrecognizable/

This is supposed to be an art project. The guy seems to be getting a lot of press for it right now. But it's a really old idea. I remember seeing another artist/hacker do the same thing many years ago, can't remember the name. It goes back at least 15 years. There are lots of other versions of it around too, youtube diy videos, even companies selling baseball hats with LEDs for the purpose.

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Wait until you hear about the sun

cyberpunk vibes

does vice think it's clever to refer to IR led as 'Surveillance Camera Parts'...

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this guy?

https://adam.harvey.studio/camoflash/

No, it wasn't that. And I don't think it was Adam Harvey. I'm thinking it was around 2006 or so, but I could be off by a bit. It was really the same, an art project with bright infrared LEDs that washed out the face on nighttime surveillance cameras. But he may not have invented it. The guy who did the hoodie says in another post that he read about the idea in a William Gibson novel.

It's ripped straight from csi and/or criminal minds or something as well. And not a late episode either...

That episode of White Collar was a good one back in like 2004.

Yeah this has been around forever, so confused to see this presented as if it's new

Seems like it would be ridiculously cheaper to just buy 1000 ir leds for $10

Cory Doctorow wrote about it in one of his books in the late ‘00s I think

Do you think ai could be used in a ctos, watch dogs, kind of fashion?

or just wear a full face mask cause human can still surveil you with their eyeballs.

Already is.

Airport and casinos can map out your entire path thru their property. They likely can isolate it too and “blur out” everyone else for evidence purpose.

If you want to know what a true dystopian system could look like? Look no further than casinos and China. I’d actually guess that US casinos are more advanced than China in some regards, but that’s because casinos are as close to the cutting edge US spy tech you’ll ever see without working for those agencies.

Just remember - sometimes these apps hate upgrading their UI. So it may look like a 1990s cctv system, but behind it is a cluster of 4090s or aws nodes doing the heavy lifting.

baby driver had it too

I guess all it takes is an art student who's leaning into the self-promotion, and some "news" sites like Vice, PopSci, etc., that really want you to click on their links.

I mean, he has some other work that's not bad, and it got me to look at his website, so mission accomplished I guess. But it did leave me with the feeling that it's a bit narcissistic to hype something that's such a well-known, decades-old shtick, without acknowledging that. Maybe it's a useful quality in an artist... but it's not a necessary one.