r/interesting • u/Green____cat • 5d ago

A mask made to block AI based facial recognition from all angles. SCIENCE & TECH

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u/bowsmountainer 5d ago

AI 10 minutes later: we have a new patch to evade attempts to block facial recognition.

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u/Honato2 5d ago

a patch can only do so much if the mask messes with the hardware and not the software.

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u/Electronic_Cat4849 5d ago

the mask doesn't mess with the hardware

in fact it barely messes with the software, I'm not sure it would even need a patch

this was definitely not made by an engineer

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u/Honato2 5d ago

Oh I agree. But there are ways to make a mask that will accomplish the task. I believe it was a light on some plastic that whites out everything.

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u/BenevolentCrows 5d ago

For that you would need massive amout of data of people photographed in these masks from all angle, it a bit harder to train for that

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u/bowsmountainer 4d ago

All you would need is an understanding of how the masks transform the image. Then use ray tracing to get from the observed image to the original image.

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u/BenevolentCrows 4d ago

I mean sure you could, but thats a very resource intensive calculation for mass surviallance, the reason they use ML for face recognition is that the models don't really need lot of resources to work well.