GabyThe Turin startup Capable has created a clothing line called Manifesto Collection that deceives facial recognition technologies. The brightly colored knitwear skillfully tricks artificial intelligence designed to identify individuals.
A person dressed in these bright clothes is perceived by recognition systems as a zebra, a dog, or a giraffe.
Protection, most reliable for makeup or masks
The founders of the fashion house Capable, Rachel Diderot and Federica Busani, created their special collection after nine months of research. During this time, the inventors studied numerous patterns, materials, and knitting machines, the publication reported. Dezeen The know-how was tested using neural networks YOLO is the fastest object identification system in real-time.
Ultimately, the Manifesto Collection clothing line was born from high-quality Egyptian cotton: sweaters, t-shirts, pants, and dresses. By the way, these extravagant yet practical items do not require ironing.
The authors of the innovative technology claim that such clothing protects biometric data more reliably than makeup or masks. When wearing it, there is no need to cover the face at all.
Attention: a colorful sweater knitted by grandmother’s hands does not have such protective properties. The algorithm for concealing faces from recognition is embedded in the texture of the material: the bright patterns of the Manifesto Collection are designed to make a person appear as an animal.
The results of the research formed the basis of Rachel Diderot’s dissertation. In her opinion, the new clothing line should spark a discussion in society about the unethical use of facial recognition cameras.
The Manifesto Collection aims to raise awareness among contemporaries about the right to privacy of biometric data. According to Diderot, the issue of the improper use of biometric recognition systems is relevant to the majority of the Earth’s population.
The inventors from the brand Capable are not the first to address the protection of personal identity from recognition technologies. In 2019, Polish designer Ewa Nowak created a brass mask that makes the face unrecognizable to surveillance cameras. A year later, Sarah Sallam, a designer from Brooklyn, presented a collection of jewelry and accessories that protect against digital tracking.
