Guest Post by Martin Armstrong
Fashion trends change to reflect new societal norms and self-expression. Today’s societal norm is constant government spying and mass data collection under the premise that we are all criminals who may defy our failing governments. One may first think of China and its vast array of CCTV cameras that are analyzed by Artificial Intelligence software to compile individual behavioral data that can be used to control the population. “Whoever owns enough data and computing ability can predict problems, predict the future, and judge the future,” Alibaba’s Jack Ma was quoted as saying. As the desire for privacy becomes a cultural norm across the West, fashion designers are finding a way to produce clothing that fulfills this need.
They say fashion in Milan always makes its way to the Americas. An Italian startup company called Cap_able has developed a clothing line to prevent AI technology from accurately identifying individuals. The company would like to “educate the population on the importance of privacy and human rights by addressing the problem of misuse of facial recognition technology.” There are similar clothing brands that celebrities notoriously use to prevent the paparazzi from taking their photograph. However, this new genre of clothing is designed to confuse sophisticated AI software. This is not an attempt to shield criminals, as AI spying software is intended to target the entire population. The ethical question arises of whether the state has the right to track its citizens. “The protection of one’s privacy or the community: what comes first? However, isn’t the protection of the community born from the necessity to protect the rights of the individual?” the company questioned.
Researchers at Harvard and MIT published an article in Brookings entitled “Exporting the surveillance state via trade in AI.” Once the government or companies collect this data, they can freely export it. The study found that China is currently the world leader in facial recognition technology and has exported over 201 deals to use its programs. The US is second behind China with 128 deals to export facial recognition technology. The published study noted that AI recognition software could “undermine democracies, enhance autocrats’ aims of social control, and empower “surveillance capitalists.”’
The government can recognize your daily whereabouts and behavioral patterns to predict what you may do or where you may go. Social scores, as seen in China, seem far-fetched in the West, but look what happened during the power grab that was COVID when countless countries imposed QR codes to restrict the freedom of movement. Credit scores were not developed in the US until 1958 and were intended to predict whether a borrower could repay their loan. The idea of a credit score would seem far-fetched to people living just a few years prior, and now that same score can vary due to simply purchasing a car or looking up your score.
So AI defiant clothing may serve a purpose in the not-so-distant future if it actually works. It would come to the surprise of none if governments outlawed this clothing or simply updated their software to bypass the designs. There’s a chance that this could simply be a gimmick, as advanced AI can learn to detect and counteract patterns. You cannot hide from Big Brother.
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If it actually works, BIG GOV will outlaw it for sure…possibly to the point where even owning such an item makes you a domestic terrorist.
They’re only going to squeeze harder as time goes on.
You know this in your hearts.
One may recall the license plate covers designed to interfere with the controversial license plate readers that grab every vehicle that passes and records time and location. They do not interfere with viewing the plate by a human, just reading devices. They have been outlawed. At least here in Illinois.
I remember.
This won’t be a problem for BIG GoV. Gait recognition is already a thing.
https://recfaces.com/articles/what-is-gait-recognition
Doubt it works, but would be outlawed for reasons in a heartbeat
They won’t need to ban it, his face is already uncovered. Plus biometrics,it’s all a conspiracy to track and catalogue everyone so resistace become much more difficult. Free and representative governments don’t do these things. I guess we never really had one of those though.
“You cannot hide from Big Brother.”
OK,stop trying to hide.
I should have known you would be a fan of this movie! It’s your kind of “normal”.
“No offense!” – Rodney Dangerfield
I also enjoyed it, but it had its cringe moments.
But, but… but how am I going to be taken seriously by my 6 figure elbow-rubbing colleagues while wearing a giraffe?
Or you could just dress like the FBI does when they’re planting a bomb in DC (January 5, 2021)
https://i.insider.com/617acb7f46a50c0018d4094e?width=1000&format=jpeg&auto=webp
“I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself.”
I think I get it, hit me a little harder.
Cool idea. Downfall is that you’re forced to wear a Cosby sweater everywhere you go.
Yeah, I don’t know many men that would wear that stuff.
And you either need a full wardrobe of that crap, or you’re going to be doing laundry every waking hour.
Had the car keys, wallet and wife in the car ready to go buy AI deterant clothes until I read this:
“There’s a chance that this could simply be a gimmick, as advanced AI can learn to detect and counteract patterns. You cannot hide from Big Brother”
😆
Anonymous Conservative had an interesting comment regarding AI….
The coming artificial intelligence economic revolution may mean, many writers, human resource officers, lawyers, writers, artists, and even coders will increasingly be replaced by AI as the “laptop class” of workers is decimated. In that milieu, trust of an actual person may be all there is of value. It could create two worlds – the world where the NPCs are controlled by the machines, which are controlled by the few, and the world of real people who are trying to find truth and a world where they can trust each other, as the other world is constantly trying to infiltrate and corrupt everything. Kind of feels like a set up for the final act.
Nope, with those prices, you’re better off finding a way to steal and duplicate the look. Otherwise, they can just know who the hell I am.
It gives a whole new meaning to being a “furrie”
I have very mixed feelings about this. Love the idea, but prefer gray t-shirt and blue jeans for most of the year…. oh, I guess I just outed myself…. darn, now you will all recognize me.
Do you have your phone on you? Then AI FRS is superfluous.
Not if they don’t already know the identity of the person they’re looking for. They will find you eventually if they want you bad enough, regardless.
If you can get ALL of them after you, then you know you’ve accomplished something.
If you can get ALL of them after you, then you know you’ve accomplished something.
It’s good to have goals tcs!
Will simple leopard print work?
Clothes celebs wear so that paparazzi can’t photograph them? What clothes would THAT be?