[conspire] (forw) [skeptic] These psychedelic stickers blow AI minds

[Ehud Kaldor]

I was thinking more about "little brother" environment, which does not seem
so fictional since about a year plus ago...

On Wed, Jan 10, 2018, 14:14 Rick Moen <rick at linuxmafia.com> wrote:

> Quoting Ehud Kaldor (ehud.kaldor at gmail.com):
>
> > how big does the patch need to be? can you just stick a mole-sized
> sticker
> > on your cheek and be done with it?
>
> The Google paper cited, among other examples, a 2016 ACM article showing
> that wearing eyeglasses with 'adverarial patterns' would defeat
> AI-driven facial recognition.  The former paper distinguishes itself
> from prior (referenced) studies including the eyeglasses one by
> examining what can be done if one is willing to use human-perceptible
> image changes.
>
> The example multicolour (tie-dye) 'camouflaged' patch shown, that was
> totally effective at confusing pattern-recognition,  is a circle that
> looks to be about 5-10 cm across.  This research didn't aim to test what
> patches would serve as an effective counterintelligence measure against
> facial recognition, as that simply wasn't the work's focus.
>
> If you want to figure out that latter bit, I fear you'll have to look
> eldwhere.  Personally, I found it intriguing mostly because it
> illustrates that what is intuitively easy for human eyes and brains,
> like ignoring a psychedelic circle next to an object that has nothing to
> do with it, is still devlishly difficult for computer algorithms.
>
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