I think they work, but will quickly be defeated. Facial recognition is nothing more than advanced pattern recognition. This clothing works by confusing the pattern the AI is trained to recognize. That may work with current models, but all it takes is to train the AI on what this adversarial clothing looks like so it can differentiate it from actual faces.

[–] Tinidril@midwest.social 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Assuming they get you on video, it would be trivial to crop out the clothes and give the algorithm only your face.

[–] lone_faerie@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 8 months ago

That's certainly true. I think the more effective method is using makeup/face paint instead. But any of these methods are designed to confuse AI, they fall apart as soon as there's any human intervention.